That's what I understand as well. What do you want to role play? Think they'd let me be an Elf?I don't have their homepage address here at work. I will post it sometime tonight, or you could probably do a Google search on "Elendor". They have a pretty informative website. From what I read they will let you play human, elf, dwarf, hobbit, and orc. I think that's it. The timeframe for the game is in and around the War of the Ring.
-Kevin
Oh, set during the books... man, I'll look into that but I doubt I'll like that. Ever heard of "Mary Sue"? It's a fanfiction term meaning a made up character (or original character, OC) that becomes the center of attention. (For instance, wow! The Fellowship just acquired a tenth member, a beautiful elf princess who saves the day all the time, defeats the Balrog herself, and carries Frodo to safety after the Ring is destroyed. They're horrible things.)
Anyway, that's why I like "unknown" periods of time better than playing around during the cannon period.