Pulled Denizens of the Dark Wood (1989) off the shelf primarily for the Angus McBride cover painting. Big fan of the color palette here.

This is a MERP scenario book, containing three brief adventures set in Mirkwood. The first two are a bit pedestrian – dealing with a giant spider problem and dealing with a troll problem respectively. The third is a bit more interesting, requiring the players to infiltrate an orc keep and steal the tithe for Sauron, er, the Necromancer stored inside. I suppose the adventures do a good job introducing the titular denizens, but I dunno, it doesn’t feel terribly exciting.

Liz Danforth did the interiors and the adventures don’t really give her much to work with, but I do love that knife wielding orc a lot.