Scrum in Miniature

  I've always found this to be an especially evocative piece.  I've only ever known it from the article on the Anti-Paladin NPC from  The Dragon  #39 (1980), but I've discovered that it was actually originally drawn three years earlier for a plate depicting the Lord of the Nazgul in a 1977  Lord of the Rings  portfolio. The artist, Cynthia Sims Millan , was not credited in that issue's editorial box, and her signature was obviously deliberately excised from the artwork itself (see above plate and below page from The Dragon ). At the very least this was extremely poor form on TSR's part, but I can't help but wonder if they even legally owned the rights to reprint the piece. Besides this portfolio and a listing in the artist database on Board Game Geek, I could find precious little on Millan . The only games she seems associated with are a handful published by Heritage USA around 1980, and on all but one of those she seems paired with artist/graphic designer David