About

Merp.com is the home of the international community dedicated to Role Playing gaming in J.R.R. Tolkien 's Middle-earth, Endor, Arda, Eä and beyond, using any RPG system.

However, it was far enough along, and the old site so ancient, we switched over in the interested of getting things rolling faster by popular demand. If whatever you're looking for from the old site is not yet on the new site, please email webmaster@merp.com with details, and/or try the old site still online at: http://old.merp.com.

Thank you for visiting this 100% community driven, non-commercial, volunteer run website, dedicated to role playing gaming in J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth. We have been serving the role-player gaming community online since 1998.

Merp.com is the home of the international community dedicated to Role Playing gaming in J.R.R. Tolkien 's Middle-earth, Endor, Arda, Eä and beyond.

Merp.com is NOT just about ICE's MERPS ( Iron Crown Enterprises Middle-earth Role-Playing System) or Decipher's LotR RPG (Lord of the Rings Role Playing Game). This site is about ANY gaming in the Middle-earth, Numenor, Valinor, Endor, Arda, or Eä settings, using ANY paper and dice role-playing gaming system you want in JRR Tolkien's related imaginary masterpiece or works.


Frodo-The Ring Bearer by Angus McBride.

Be sure to visit the NEWS section for up to date information on Middle-earth gaming events, movies, website updates, and much more! Be sure to check out the new MerpCon convention(s) section of the site!

Be sure to check out the DOWNLOADS section of the site with thousands of files related to gaming in Tolkien's universe, and new content added almost daily.

NOTE ON DOWNLOADS: As has been the case for years, many of the files LINKED to from this site, links to servers that are NOT associated with Merp.com. Most notably, the ICE MERP downloads, none of them are on the Merp.com site, instead on sites around the world. Merp.com merely LINKS to these remote locations. Use caution since we have no control over those files.

Disclaimers

Merp.com has been running as a BBS since 1994, and on the Internet since 1998. The new version (7.0) of this site was launched Friday, August 3rd 2007. This front page was last updated Tuesday October 23rd, 2006. The rest of the content on this site updated daily, see the "Recent Items" block for what's recently been published.

As of October 21st, 2006, since September 2004, we had over
11,120 new registered users!

Around 2008 we had over 18,000 registered and confirmed users.

From 2001 to October 2004 we were steadily gaining 50,000+ hits per month over the previous month. in February 2004 we reached over 1,500,000+ unique visitors per month! Between the mirrors around the world, we were seeing an average of 10-20 Gigabytes a day in downloads! However, after 2005 we have seen this steadily decline, attributable to the loss of interest in the Peter Jackson Lord of the Rings movies.  Now a more loyal groups of many thousands remains with the site. We do expect this to spike once again with the new Hobbit Movies in 2012 and 2013 however, as once again, another new generation is introduced to the wonders of J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth.

On May 9th, 2010, we "wiped the slate clean" and launched version 7.0 of Merp.com.

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