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...shop markets some 170 games, the latest of which is a Tolkien imagining called War of the Ring. For $20 the Hobbit fancier gets three large maps of Middle Earth, and a densely printed 28-page rulebook with instructions like "To attempt Citadel Reduction, the Dark Power Player must expend one Shadow Point for each Nazgul present...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Games People Play: 1977 | 12/26/1977 | See Source »

...Tolkien fantasy is by no means the most complex monster rally available; a small Wisconsin firm called TSR Hobbies Inc. sells a bewildering three-volume manual for a mind game called Dungeons & Dragons, whose object is to wrest treasure from the loathsome beings that guard it. The game involves a dungeon of six or more descending levels drawn on graph paper and includes such monsters as Balrogs, Purple Worms, Giant Leeches, Nixies, Griffons and Invisible Stalkers. Players take the characters of men, hobbits, elves or dwarfs and fight or hunt treasure according to elaborate rules: "The charisma score is usable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Games People Play: 1977 | 12/26/1977 | See Source »

FICTION 1. The Silmarillion, Tolkien (1 last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Best Sellers | 12/26/1977 | See Source »

...Hobbit, Tolkien...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Best Sellers | 12/26/1977 | See Source »

...Silmarillion, Tolkien (1 last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Books, Dec. 19, 1977 | 12/19/1977 | See Source »

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