Pete Fenlon
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Pete Fenlon | |
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Biographical information | |
Born | 1955 |
Education | History, Anthropology, Law |
Location | Charlottesville, VA |
Peter C. Fenlon, Jr. (1955-) is an American role-playing game designer/author and illustrator. He was the former president and one of the founders of Iron Crown Enterprises, and contributed extensively to the Middle-earth Role Playing game.
The Fenlon Style
As an illustrator, Fenlon is especially known for his maps of Middle-earth. These were a large-scale map of the continent of Middle-earth (first released in 1982 as An Artist's Interpretation of Middle Earth) and several smaller-scale maps of different regions of Middle-earth (most of whom were printed in Northwestern Middle-earth Map Set). The smaller-scale maps were often included as separate color fold-outs with the MERP 1st Ed. modules. With MERP 2nd Ed., no new maps were released.
Fenlon's maps have continued to have an explicit influence on later Middle-earth gaming cartographers (e.g., Thomas Morwinsky and Sampsa Rydman), and his continental map has been discussed and revised in the magazines Other Hands and Other Minds.[1]
The characteristical maps of Fenlon have even created an expression known as 'Fenlon Style maps'. In January 2008, the Cartographer's Annual released a Pete Fenlon style pack for use with ProFantasy Software cartography tools.[2]
Bibliography
Selected bibliography of works concerned with the legendarium of J.R.R. Tolkien.
- 1982: MERP: An Artist's Interpretation of Middle Earth
- 1984: MERP: Moria, The Dwarven City
- 1984: MERP: Dagorlad and the Dead Marshes
- 1986: MERP: Lords of Middle-earth Vol I
- 1986: MERP: Lords of Middle-earth Vol II
- 1989: MERP: Lords of Middle-earth Vol III
- 1993: MERP: Valar and Maiar
- 1993: MERP: Middle-earth Campaign Guide
- 1994: MERP: Elves
- 1994: MERP: Creatures of Middle-earth (2nd edition)
- 1994: MERP: Moria (2nd edition)
- 1994: MERP: Middle-earth Role Playing Poster Maps
- 1994: MERP: Northwestern Middle-earth Map Set
- 1995: MERP: Mirkwood (2nd edition)
- 1997: Middle-earth: The Lidless Eye Companion
See also
External links
- Pete Fenlon at Wikipedia
- Pete Fenlon at BoardGameGeek
References
- ↑ Other Hands July 2000. Other Minds, issue 1 and issue 2.
- ↑ The Cartographer's Annual Vol. 2 (external link)