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* [[Animal Motifs]]: Seven of the nine Nazgûl have a helm based on some sort of animal (Akhôrahil and Ren do not). Khamûl's is dragon, Dwar's is a war-dog, Indûr Dawndeath's is an elephant (or more precisely, a Mûmak), Hoarmûrath's is a polar bear, Adûnaphel's is a falcon, and Ûvatha's is a bat. The Witch-king has a helm in the shape of an octopus because the artist mistook [http://www.amazon.com/Unfinished-Tales-J-R-R-Tolkien/dp/B001LFZ7QA/ref=sr_1_13?ie=UTF8&qid=1335744373&sr=8-13 the Dragon-helm of Dor-lómin on the cover of] ''[[Unfinished Tales of Númenor and Middle-earth|Unfinished Talesof Numenor and Middleearth]]'' for the crown of Númenor, which she assumed was a cephalopod (Númenor being a seafaring civilization; in fact, the crown of Númenor was a simple winged helm).
* [[Big Bad]]: Sauron, naturally--though in the canon setting of T.A. 1640 he's in hiding and is [[The Man Behind the Man]] for his [[The Dragon|Dragon]], the Witch-king of Angmar.
* [[Early Installment Weirdness]]: One of the first adventure modules, ''The Court of Ardor'', centered on a cult of Morgoth-worshiping dark elves in the far south of Middle-earth. This was [[Canon
* [[Fantasy Counterpart Culture]]: MERP's take on the Easterlings was very strongly based on Mongol horsemen. (Ignoring the fact that Tolkien explicitly notes they used horses mainly for pulling wagons and chariots and rarely fielded cavalry.)
* [[Half-Human Hybrid]]: In addition to Tolkien's half-elves and half-orcs, MERP introduced the [http://www.kingtape.se/realmsofarda/index.php?title=Umli Umli], a race descended from the union of Men and Dwarves, who live in the Northern Waste.
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