Board Thread:Lore Texts/@comment-26128079-20170614085636/@comment-31421070-20170616084306

Thindithron the Great wrote: SinzPet wrote: Mevans himself also told us to invent things, like Tolien did too, he too told people to come up with their own stories set in his mythos. Yes, but we have plenty of uninvented information for Elves and the like, which is always preferable. SinzPet wrote: And this serves just that purpose, to invent things, and to make the possible books you can get in the mod more diverse, like Mevans asked. You could have easily written a lore-accurate text and the possible books would be just as diverse. SinzPet wrote: And in this story "Glaerdir" would only be the lord of like his own house of something. it is vague on purpose, precisely bcus it isnt tolkien-lore. It is a new story, like Tolkien wanted us to do. And i intend to keep doing new stories, cus i respect his wishes and when Mevans asked us for original texts to make into books, what better was to combine the two? New stories aren't necessary where stories already exist. Tolkien wanted people to expand his work, not undermine it. (Besides, when he said this, he was speaking mostly of art.) SinzPet wrote: And as for your question "If copies of this text exist in so many regions, why is it not in known lore?". Well, first, it would be a very old book, it would be laying around in some old libraries or forgotten places or something like this. There are many other far older books referenced all the time in LotR. SinzPet wrote: And do you know how the story goes?(in the mythos) about how everything Tolkien wrote was things he translated from stories from the Red Book of westmarch. And the red book couldn't possibly contain every single story of those nearly 7000 years, so ofc unknown stories like this would have existed too. Not everything was translated from the Red Book, obviously. The Silmarillion, for example, was supposedly compiled by Elendil. SinzPet wrote: The point of these books being added to the mod is to make the mod feel more alive, to bring variation and make it feel real. This is for that exact purpose. This story is so unspecific that it adds little, if any, life to the mod. SinzPet wrote: If people want to read actual Tolkien Lore, which we're not even allowed to copy/paste into any book at all, they shouldn't be trying to do in in-mod anyways. That should be done in Tolkien's books and websites and stuff like that. This is about making the mod feel more alive. And that, my books( more to come) are certainly contributing. That isn't what I mean. Not actual quotations from the book(s), but the lore of Tolkien written down by wikia users. SinzPet wrote: (Also, i already got an OK from Mevans himself and a bunch of the other people who help develop the mod that the things i want to write about are perfectly fine to write about) Perfectly fine, no doubt, but not implement-worthy. SinzPet wrote: Anything i forgot to answer there Thindithron? anything else you wanted to know? Just one thing, yes. Why do you insist on pushing your watered-down TOS lore onto other users? Aaah! Huge posts beware!

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