Board Thread:Suggestions forum/@comment-31907131-20170209042613

You might say that this is an odd choice of topic. I am currently reading The Lord of the Rings again, for the purpose of outlining on this forum any inconsistencies between the book and this mod- my first foray was my essay on Pipe-weed.

So, Elvish Beds. I refer you to the following passages:

The Fellowship of the Ring, The Mirror of Galadriel

''That night the company slept upon the ground... the Elves spread for them a pavilion among the trees... and in it they laid soft couches...''

I omitted irrelevant parts with ellipses. Soft couches; not beds. It is most probable that these couches would not be used for sleeping by the Elves, but more likely resting or simply as a comfortable place to write poems, etc, as you will see after the next few quotations.

That night the Company ws again summoned to the chamber of Celeborn...

'That night'? In Lorien, at least, time seems not to matter as much, due to the influence of Galadriel and Nenya, and if they would summon people at night, it points to Elves not sleeping, or sleeping little.

The Two Towers, The Riders of Rohan

''Before dawn was in the sky he [Aragorn] woke... Gimli was still deep in slumber, but Legolas was standing, gazing northwards...''

As before Legolas was first afoot, if indeed he had ever slept.

''[Aragorn and Gimli are weary etc] Only Legolas still stepped as lightly as ever... and he could sleep, if sleep it could be called by Men, resting his mind in the strange paths of Elvish dreams, even as he walked open-eyed in the light of this world.''

Aragorn and Gimli slept fitfully, and whenever they awoke they saw Legolas standing beside them, or walking to and fro, singing softly...

The point I am trying to make that Elves sleep, as we see it, very little or not at all. The Elves of Lorien are almost improvising in setting up a sleeping place for the Company, and Legolas does not sleep at all in these passages. Also, in the flet described in the Fellowship, there was no mention of any beds (they probably slept on blankets and furs on the wood). So I propose the following changes to the mod:

-Beds no longer spawn inside structures in Lothlorien at least, and the bed itself should perhaps be removed from the mod. High Elven and Wood-Elven beds can be removed or not at the discretion of Mevans (Legolas was a Wood- Elf though, so they are more likely to have theirs removed).

-Perhaps a sort of Elvish couch or something similar should be added as a craftable item, and found in some houses in Lothlorien? 