Nameless Things

Cosmic Horror in Middle-earth

Welcome to Nameless Things, a small, strange crossover between the bucolic countryside of Tolkien’s Middle-earth and the unspeakable eldritch horrors of H. P. Lovecraft. Middle-earth is already ripe with horrors, from the “nameless things” that gnaw the depths of the world, to the undead Barrow-Wights and Nazgul, to primordial spirits such as Ungoliant and her descendants. Likewise, the idealized vision of the English countryside that is the Shire is easy to reimagine as a place of secrets and decay, with insular and suspicious hobbits peering out of noisome holes, corrupt and degenerate families falling from nobility into shocking ignorance and monstrous habits, and seekers after lore and power whose minds are blasted by what they find.

Nameless Things is set in Middle-earth several hundred years after the events of The Lord of the Rings. Great names such as King Elessar are the stuff of legend, the Elves are all vanished and only half-believed in, and the world is a dark and fallen place.

Nameless Things uses the Savage Worlds Adventure Edition rules, with alterations as noted here.