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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lord Zack" data-source="post: 7696906" data-attributes="member: 53996">It seems like you might be including some elements from the Book of Lost Tales. The Book of Lost Tales is not set in Middle Earth. It's meant to be a mythology for England. While Middle-Earth shares some elements with that earlier effort they are not the same thing.Of course there really is no such thing as canon when it comes to Middle Earth. The Hobbit, Lord of the Rings and the Silmarillion are not truly consistent with each other. The Silmariillion especially is specifically called out by Christopher Tolkien as being not consistent with his father's works. The Silmarillion consists of Tolkien's writings, at least in part, but was not something JRR Tolkien ever intended to put out, at least not in it's current form. <a href="http://middle-earth.xenite.org/2011/11/16/is-your-canon-on-the-loose/" target="_blank">This</a> puts things better than I could.As for what this means for Cubicle 7, well no doubt they have already made their own decisions on how to convert the works of Tolkien to rpg form, since they have already done so. But to create an rpg that is consistent with Tolkien's vision would require to input of the man himself. So I wouldn't work too much about 5e not being a good fit for Middle Earth.</blockquote>