user summary German Edition of the English Middle-Earth Role Playing. This is the German Book Version of the first edition rules. See also the German boxed version: Mittelerde Rollenspiel Deluxe Edition And the earlier English versions Middle-earth Role Playing (1st Edition) Middle-earth Role Playing (1st Edition, Revised) The German version of the rules is called MERS (Mittelerde Rollenspiel = Middel-Earth Role Play) and was released November 1987.