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Depending how long the adventurers were away from their horses, they simply could look for them using Hunting or Explore. Some horses or ponies could even come back on their own.

To be honest, I don’t think the normal combat mechanics are designed for Player vs. Player fights. Even during a Bout of Madness it would be too extreme for me, but if Heroes try to actually kill each other. So the brawling rules indeed be to clumsy in my opinion. I‘d just handle it narratively. If ...

When my players played that adventure they were quite experienced, but even they did not fight the trolls, but instead tricked them. Generally speaking TOR doesn’t use „levels“. So if you are up against trolls, you should inform your group that a fight could be deadly. But that’s the case even for e...

In my game, Gurthang stays buried alongside Turin, but Estelang is forged with some remnants of Stariron. One of my players is an absolute Lord of the Rings loremaster, and he came up with a whole story of how stariron came to be, why it might be cursed if forged into weapons. So for me, the Numenor...

Interesting, my players thought otherwise, but maybe it was down to time and distance. A level 1 hero in Merp has to be very careful to not die in a battle against a single orc. In TOR the results of a die roll are not that erratic, there are no criticals for example. And Hope makes it easier to su...

I‘d like to add, that in The One Ring starting heroes feel way more capable than in Merp. Sure you don’t have spell lists, but all culture have unique abilities, that quite often substitute for spells, which were the go-to rule for special abilities back in the day.

Generally speaking, technology is a difficult topic, since you can't simply find analogies from our world and copy them to areas of Middle-earth. If there is one parallel, then that in our world the inventions of the ancient world (Greek, Rome) were far more advanced than anything in the Dark Ages a...

Though it’s not a silly question, I don’t think you need a rule for that. Cultures of Men tend to be younger, when they go on adventures, so i tend to say 20+.

The rulebook has some suggestions. Elves are interesting in that context, since their adventuring age might vary a lot.

Of course you can place spiders where ever you like! It's just a matter of tone. If I know, that my campaign will first take place in Eriador and then move to Wilderland, I would include spiders there. But if I'd stay in Eriador and one of my players had Enemy-lore "Spiders", naturally I'd...

Does your player hero with enemy lore: spiders come from Wilderland? Cause let’s face it, spiders are like the archetypal adversary for Mirkwood, but not for Eriador. So it‘s probably safe to say, that we get new adversaries while the product line is widened to other regions of Middle-earth.