Board Thread:Suggestions forum/@comment-28076892-20190206162024/@comment-29298199-20190419002057

What we have here is a classic case of gameplay vs realism. Realistically, we shouldn't be able to teleport from Mordor to the Shire whenever we feel like it. But from a gameplay standpoint, nobody is going to be willing to walk from the Shire to Mordor, a journey that canonically took place for six months. The suggestion to limit fast travel options is also questionable, because it could take upwards of an hour just to get from your home base to an enemy faction's lands, with waiting time awkwardly spent.

Keep in mind almost every open-world game has a fast-travel method of some kind, with those that don't usually compensating with large amounts of unique things. The LOTR Mod dosen't have that. (No offense meant.) Once you've seen the Shire, you've seen 90% of it. Spending an hour or more just trying to get to Gondor would be tedious and repetitive.