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1985 Noldor Deep Elf ME32 Spear 4 Variant Lord of the Rings Citadel High LOTR GW.
An excellent little miniature, with Longsword, dagger and a wicked curved spear. Games Workshop Citadel brought out the excellent LOTR range, which was only available while they had the licence. I believe this miniature came out in 1985 as some of the sets were shown in the 1985 Spring Journal. This was just as they'd moved over to the plastic slotta bases. They also broached the period that they stopped using the old illustrated drawings and moved over to using photos so you could see exactly what you were getting (although some of the earlier photos on the Mail order flyers were pretty bad). They brought out three ME-32 Noldor The Deep Elves and these can be seen in the Third Citadel compendium. They can also be seen in the Second Citadel journal Autumn 1985, but are incorrectly numbered as ME52 (which was actually the reference for the excellent Olog-Hai Troll). GW later brought out various alternatives in the ME32 range, with either a bow, sword or spear. The variants with bow and swords were moved into the Citadel High Elf range and can be seen in the 1991 Red catalogue. These Elfs armed with a spear were dropped from the range, and there are clearly less of them out there due to this as they were only available towards the end of the period that they had the licence to be able to produce the Lord of the Rings range. So not many of them out there. In various ranges, the ones that are harder to get, prove to be the ones that were brought out later and towards the end of the period that the actual range was available and being sold for. You can see an excellent web page that shows a lot of them (I'm unclear if that's all) here:
It states that some later castings have the Lord of the Rings specific information on their slotta tabs removed? This miniature has Noldor on the slotta with GW 1985 on the back. I'm guessing that the web page I quote is referring to names of the miniatures that related to the franchise being removed. So I assume (for example) the Dwarfs, still said Dwarf, but anything that said Mirkwood, Silvan, Dunharrow etc that related to the books, was copyright and thus could not be re-produced later. So I assume that the White hand Orc, for example, would have been blanked off and put out in later standard Orc ranges. Just so you know where I'm coming from, if I'm wrong, let me know!
I believe they were referred to as Deep Elves due to their level of knowledge and study. Rather than the Deep Elves of other game systems that instead refer to Sea Elves. An excellent page on them here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noldor
Useful as a figure for any Advanced Dungeons and Dragons Roleplaying game. AD&D roleplay was all about the imagination, but miniatures make for a great game and bring the characters to life. Now it's Pathfinder that is popular, although no where near what AD&D was in it's heyday. I see them as more fitting as Dark Elves, due to their look and armour.
The Dark Elves or Drow as they are known in the Advanced Dungeons and Dragons Roleplaying game, are a dark skinned subrace of elves with pale hair colours. That's depending on where you read about them. Dark Elves live underground in the Underdark and are the evil cousins of their topside relatives. They represent the darker side of the Elven race, being either Chaotic evil or Neutral evil, and are sometimes referred to as Fey humanoid, Dark Elvenfolk or Night Elves.
The Drow were first referred to in the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy roleplay game in the 1st Edition 1977 AD&D first Monster Manual. It refers to them as Black Elves or Drow and states that they are only legend, purportedly dwelling deep beneath the surface world, in strange subterranean realms. It clearly states that they are evil, mentioning that they are, "as dark as Faeries are bright." It is later written that it was the Fairies and Elves that drove the Dark Elves underground to their caverns. The Drow D&D stats (statistical information) can be found in the Fiend Folio D&D rulebook. Gary Gygax wrote this piece on the Dark Elves, which was taken from the fantasy roleplaying modules that he had written which included them. The Drow Elves appear in the G3 and D3 sets of D&D modules. These sets could later be purchased as one in the Queen of the Spiders adventure module. In the AD&D realm the Dark elves were weaker fighters and favoured poisons, but had very powerful magic. The strongest magic users and sorcerers were the female priestesses.
The Dark Elves are first presented as a player character race in Gary Gygax's 1985 Unearthed Arcana rulebook. Several Elven sub-races are described in the book, including Grey Elves, Wood Elves, Wild Elves, and Valley Elves. The evil Dark Elves are described as the most divergent sub-race, and any Dark Elf player characters are considered outcasts from their homeland, either by choice, differing from the standard chaotic evil alignment of the race, or having lost in some family-wide power struggle. The Dark elves have some excellent and powerful magical items, but these lose their power and degrade rapidly when removed from the Under dark and exposed to sunlight, turning to dust.
The Drow are later presented as a role player character race for the 2nd edition 1992 book The Complete Book of Elves and are now fully a part of the Advanced Dungeons and Dragons role play ethos. They can also be found in various other game systems such as Pathfinder role playing game. Pathfinder also has Half Drow, who are also referred to as Darkborn by humans or Thinblood by Drow. They are the equivalent of Half-elves. There are also various books written on Drizzt Do'Urden, probably the most famous Dark Elf, who also appears in various computer games.
Conversely the Dark Elves are known as Druchii in the Warhammer world and live above ground in massive densely populated cities. The Druchii are pale skinned with raven black hair and truly evil. This metal miniature would fit in perfectly for a Warhammer fantasy battle army (WHFB) for wargaming.
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