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from the info I managed to get from the registrar... the domain perilousrealm.com is about to disappear (end of registration)

The organism who submitted the name to the registrar is Yahoo, that means that behind "perilousrealm.com" which is only a domain name, the website and hosting was done by Yahoo.com . As I am not from the USA I only passed the information so that maybe someone among us living in the USA could contact him.  Yahoo removed all content from the website. the folders online are simply empty...
I heard that maybe Wendy, Theobald, and the google cache may have backups of some of the STATIC information on mmp (such as the interview with Chris Tubb or the description of what MMP is) I am still waiting for the interview from Wendy.

As for all the dynamic content, which was hosted on a SQL database (what we could see in the site was only a display "mask" of the database content) well this SQL database seems to have been... droped. Maybe Yahoo.com has kept backups... But they would never give it away to any except the owner of the site... it has been several months since, apparently yahoo has not heard news of Marc. They only decided to drop the content, seemingly, after several attempts to contact him to keep his website alive.

Which leads me to believe Marc may have had some more serious problems  than only "stopping his interest" in MMP.
That's why .. if some guy from the US could use the phone number provided in my link and try... to contact him directly, at lease to ger Real Life news... that would be kind...

Yes, I had contact with Marc regarding the MX, but only through his email on MMP, which was the same he has as contact on the gold board. I'm sorry I don't have more info. Marc wanted to sell of his collection, but this never happened eighter. So at the moment we are not really further then we have before. What a shame.

A Merry Meeting!





Hi Collector fellows
Yes it happens sometimes:
I (hwolf or halbarad II) had the chance to meet ddaines in reality! 

On a trip to United Kingdom/London we had a merry meeting
and some very nice and interesting chat  about collecting Mithril Minis.
thanks to David for the tasty wine ;o)

Cheers, Halbarad II

Last edited by Halbarad II (Thu, Oct8 2009 9:04am)

Halbarad II wrote:

A Merry Meeting!




Hi Collector fellows
Yes it happens sometimes:
I (hwolf or halbarad II) had the chance to meet ddaines in reality! 

On a trip to United Kingdom/London we had a merry meeting
and some very nice and interesting chat  about collecting Mithril Minis.
thanks to David for the tasty wine ;o)

Cheers, Halbarad II

Your round next time Harry

Mmmh, I must confess this is a invitingly occasion ! We should talk about this.

It is not a dumb question George.

Originally, Mithril contracted with Iron Crown Enterprises (ICE) to produce figures based upon their Middle-earth Role Playing (MERP) game. This was a license granted by Tolkien Enterprises (not to be confused with the Tolkien Estate). Over the years, Tolkien Enterprises (TE) came to own the rights to all materials relating to the Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings. The books themeselves, games, collectibles, movies, almost everything. Tolkien Estates maintains ownership of all other JRR Tolkien works. That is why Mithril cannot produce any Silmarillion based figures among other restrictions.

So back to your question: the whole Mithril concept, per the agreement with ICE, was based upon these MERP publications, which included not only characters from the books, but made up characters that the authors of the MERP publications thought might be reasonable to expect would exist in Middle-earth, if it were fleshed out, so to say (Thieves of Tharbad, or Orcs with spears). And then there are the completely made up Characters such as Nimhir the Regent.

In the begining Chris Tubb sculpted pieces that corresponded to several of the MERP Role-playing books, which of course included many (and eventually all) of the regular Tolkien characters found in the Hobbit and LOTRs. But the first few books dealt more with the common folk of Middle-earth. Thus Legolas being number 65.

Eventually, ICE lost the license to publish the MERP line (screwed by TE who wanted to license the movie and product rights to bigger, better capitalized companies--New Line Cinema and Games Workshops), but Mithril has maintained their agreement (with TE) to produce figures as long as they keep to the original deal. This is why after we vote on a figure in our FG club we still have to wait for approval from Tolkien Enterprises before Mithril can produce and sell it. The same process holds when Mithril makes an "M" series release such as the recent Helms Deep figures.

Chris has always enjoyed the MERP body of works, and that is why we still see some pieces produced based upon those publications, such as Dagohir. And enough FG members like some of the MERP ideas, such as Female Assassin of Dol Amroth, that we vote occassionaly for a MERP inspired figure of the month.

Hope you're not more confused now than before.

As for Marc, I also lost touch with him; well before the original MMP site went down he seems to have disappeared.

Last edited by twrich (Sat, Oct10 2009 6:49am)

Thanks for the info! (I don't know your real name, only twrich!)

That is very valuable information.  Thanks for taking the time to write it.

I agree with tom (twrich) but i would add two points :

Legolas is not the first member of the fellowship there is Gandalf already at M52
and ICE lost their TE licence for other obscure matters involving the "over minagination" of Pete Fenlon outside the boundaries of the Tolkien Enterprise licence (such as the worldwide arda map and so many fancy and non-canon material) At one point the Tolkien Estate entered into the "game" and made it so that Tolkien Enterprise prefered not to renew ICE licence rather to be sued for material they would not be allowed to "touch"... (that's alas the same reason why Christopher Tolkien does not like Mithril... mainly because they are strongly linked, in the past and still now, to MERP material... and everybody knows that MERP is the "nemesis" of the Tolkien Estate...

Halbarad II wrote:

Hi, Yes next round is mine!

Should I bring some German Beer next time?
Or tasty mead from busy german bees? LOL

Anyone wanna come also?

Halbarad II

Beer, Mead and Jagermeister (spelling?), bring it on, lol.

Thanks for the answers fellas! 

Although I didn't realize until AFTER I posted that I used the wrong forum.  I should have used the taproom or something like that.  Sorry!