Board Thread:General Mod Discussion/@comment-30303386-20171104212518/@comment-28343369-20171106201637

Kickratgames wrote: ElenionoftheFirmament wrote: I have a proposition: Cease talking about factions being "inspired" by historical cultures at once. I cannot even fathom why people are so comvinced that there must be some parallel between the world of Middle-Earth and our world. Tolkien's fantasy is full of wonderful, unique, and incredibly detailed cultures. Stop making them a parallel to the cultures of our world. We are not saying they are carbon copies of real life factions. A faction has similarities to a real life one, and we're just trying to find them out. We are not saying they are exact copies, we're saying they have similarities to real life factions. If no real life faction has atleast some similarity to real life ones some things won't exist: the fact that Dalish like vodka, russians like vodka and so according to you they can't like vodka, Lossoth have igloos, inuits have igloos so lossoth can't have igloos. Wainriders, rohirrim, and Balcoth all like horses mongols like horses to so that shouldn't exist. Dwarves have viking/celtic names, so all of their names should be changed.

Do you see how stupid the idea that all these factions have no similarities to real life ones? You evidently don't understand.

Of course there are similarities, that is a given. Fantasy will always have some aspects of real life, especially things so generic as 'horses' or 'igloos'. (Also, Dalish vodka is a mod invention. not actually in the lore). What really sets me off is that people seem to think: "Rohirrim like horses so they are obviously Goths since they like horses as well." What I'm saying, is that the culture of Middle-Earth factions are unique from those of our world. You seem to be suggesting that because of small similarities, M.E. factions are obviously representations of real life factions.