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MerpCon III Guest Speaker - Dr. Thomas Morwinsky
In 2007, for MerpCon III the guest speaker is Doctor Thomas Morwinsky, author of a number of adventures and magazine contributions set in Middle-earth. He is also the designer of several wonderful large-scale, highly detailed maps set in Tolkien's imaginary universe, including the most detailed large-scale map of J.R.R. Tolkien's Númenor ever made.
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In the “real world” Dr. Morwinsky is an entomologist for the German Government. He will be flying in all the way from Germany just for the chance to speak at this event on Saturday, July 28th at 6:00 pm Pacific Time.
Dr. Morwinsky was born in 1967. He graduated with a PhD in entomology in 2002. He has been working for the German government's armed forces as the government's entomologist since 2003. He has been married since 2004. He first began role-playing in Middle-earth in 1987. He was a GM (Game Master) for MERP/RM (Middle-earth Role Playing / Role Master) in Middle-earth from 1988 to around 1999. He contributed more than half a dozen works to the the Middle-earth role playing gaming magazine Other Hands, from 1999 to 2001. His contributions to OH included:
Dr. Thomas Morwinsky will be flying in all the way from Germany just to speak at the MerpCon III event. He is flying in Friday, arriving late Friday night (July 27th). He will be at the convention all day Saturday (July 28th), speaking at 6:00 pm to 7:00 pm. Then catching his return flight to Germany early Sunday (July 29th) morning.
Other works he has contributed to the Middle-earth role playing gaming community include: