Board Thread:Suggestions forum/@comment-27482422-20180909121155/@comment-27482422-20180911160351

High King Ithilion wrote: Gen. Grievous1138 wrote: High King Ithilion wrote: I'd suggest less "weekly service" and proselytyzing (doesn't seem very much like Middle-earth, where such religions as we know them are absent) and instead some forms of human sacrifice--burning alive was a popular one among the followers of Melkor.

Ithilion, Discussions Moderator (Auta i lómë) Religion as we know it was the foundation of Middle-Earth entirely. And it would fit with the Gulfings, who put it in those terms to downplay the fact that, indeed, the "weekly services" are actually just sacrificing people. It's innuendo of sorts.

And if the Haradrim get priests that can burn sacrifices alive I want some for Orcs too. :-P

Gen. Grievous1138 (LOTR Mod Wiki Admin) comlink 10:07, September 10, 2018 (UTC) I mean religions with a Church, priests, and evangelism, which isn't something we see anywhere in Middle-earth. They can say "we shall be presenting an offering to the great Mulkher tonight", but they'd hardly say "come to the weekly service, we will bring you oneness with Mulkher" or something like that.

Ithilion, Discussions Moderator (Auta i lómë) Of course we don't see it in the Westlands, but it isn't excluded from the Near Harad, a place very different. Temples, sacrifices, sacrificial daggers, altars, totems etc exist in the mod lore. It would be weird that people so religious have no priesthood. Sauron was High Priest of Numenor, and he evangelized to the Numenorians. I do take into consideration that some Southrons had an organized religion.