Thread:LOTRMod/@comment-28826152-20170217185618/@comment-25101690-20170217201040

No need to learn another language. Learn Java, but don't start with Forge modding. Do some simple console applications (the easiest kind of programs), then make increasingly bigger programs while trying to have a good OO structure. Java lives from its design patterns.

You can also learn Forge from Forge tutorials directly and copypaste most of the code, but then you won't really understand anything and have problems when you want to do advanced stuff.