Mines of Moria Card Proofs

On or about 2 January, 2002, Decipher submitted final card images for the Mines of Moria expansion to New Line Cinema for approval. New Line approved of the majority of these cards, with only minor adjustments required for some. Some cards ended up having their portraits further adjusted by Decipher artists, and these were also sent in later for late approval.

These faxes were fortunately included within the New Line Fax Proofs dump courtesy of Kreg Miller, and are presented below with commentary.

The opening salvo of the Mines of Moria approval process.

Standard Product Approval Form provided to New Line.

Another cover letter. Presumably this was faxed to two separate IP owners, in this case Tolkien Enterprises to get the lore itself proofed.

Standard Product Approval Form provided to New Line.

Here we have beta versions of the following cards:

• Golden Light on the Land (2U8)
• Hand Axe (2C10)
• Till Durin Wakes Again (2C14)
• Gimli, Dwarf of the Mountain-race (2P121)
• Glóin, Friend to Thorin (2R7)
• Tidings of Erebor (2U13)
• Frór, Gimli's Kinsman (2C6)
• Dwarven Bracers (2U3)
• Beneath the Mountains (2R1)

The only notable change here besides a typo in Fror's lore is that the Ring of Power shown in the Dwarven Bracers portrait has been photoshopped out.

Dwarven 2

Gandalf 1

Gandalf 2

Isengard/sites 1

Isengard/sites 1

Moria 1

Moria 2

Moria 3 / Sauron 1

Moria 4 / Sauron 2

Ringwraith 1 / Elven 1

Ringwraith 2 / Elven 2

Shire 1

Shire 2

Shire 3 / Gondor 1

Shire 4 / Gondor 2

New Line Response

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Resubmission cover

Resubmission form

cards 1

cards 2