I've known about this for some time, maybe three years now, but was sworn to secrecy. At any rate the whole sorry story of what really happened to Decipher and the LotR RPG is told here:
http://hamptonroads.com/node/501025
Hell has a special place for you, Rick Eddleman, you SOB. Not because of something as petty as the fact that you robbed us of our favorite game, but because you stole from your own family and from 90 people that entrusted you with their finances. How many freelancers in addition to these poor souls didn't get paid?
You're gonna be up to your throat in excrement for all eternity right next to Bernie Madoff and all those other Wall Street thieves, you sorry POS.
Taliesin