| Pete Fenlon | |
|---|---|
| Biographical Information | |
| Born | 1955 |
| Education | History, Anthropology, Law |
| Occupation | CEO |
| Location | Charlottesville, VA |
Peter C. Fenlon, Jr. (born 1955) is an American table-top 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.
Around 2000, after ICE went bankrupt, Pete Fenlon and long-time colleague Coleman Charlton joined the Mayfair Game company, which ICE had previously bailed out.[1] When Mayfair's rights to Catan were transferred to Asmodee, Fenlon became the head of the newly created Catan Studio subsidiary.[2]
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[3] and Other Minds.[4]
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.[5]
Bibliography
Selected bibliography of works concerned with the legendarium of J.R.R. Tolkien.
- 1982: An Artist's Interpretation of Middle Earth
- 1984: Moria: The Dwarven City
- 1984: Dagorlad and the Dead Marshes
- 1986: Lords of Middle-earth: Vol. I
- 1986: Lords of Middle-earth: Vol. II
- 1989: Lords of Middle-earth: Vol. III
- 1993: Valar and Maiar
- 1993: Middle-earth Campaign Guide
- 1994: Elves (book)
- 1994: Creatures of Middle-earth (2nd edition)
- 1994: Moria (1994 book)
- 1994: Middle-earth Role Playing Poster Maps
- 1994: Northwestern Middle-earth Map Set
- 1995: Mirkwood (MERP)
- 1997: Middle-earth: The Lidless Eye Companion
See also
External links
- Pete Fenlon at Wikipedia
- Pete Fenlon at BoardGameGeek
References
- ↑ Shannon Appelcline (2014), Designers & Dragons: The ’80s, pp. 95-118
- ↑ "Asmodee becomes board gaming’s new monster, acquires English rights to Catan". Ars Technica
- ↑ Other Hands July 2000
- ↑ Other Minds, issue 1 and issue 2
- ↑ The Cartographer's Annual Vol. 2 (external link)