Board Thread:Suggestions forum/@comment-33185350-20171123170105/@comment-25376906-20171127170619

Sir Lazuli wrote: Thranduil’s steed doesn’t look anything like an elk. The antlers definitely resemble a moose much better. But the elk in the mod don’t seem based off of that model - the antlers are totally different. You are correct about the confusion between elk and moose. I am assuming that the game means a North American elk when it calls its mobs elk because the antlers don’t look at all like a moose. It isn’t quite like a North American elk, but closer than a moose. So if we wanted to add all of these correctly:

1. Deer would be renamed fallow deer.

2. Elk would be renamed red deer.

3. Reindeer would be reindeer.

4. Moose would be called elk.

The thing is, this would be very confusing to North American players because they don’t picture an elk as looking like what they call a moose. What do other people think? Should this be the naming convention?

Thranduil's steed definetly is some kind of deer, as opposed to horses used by men. It has a deer had and moose antlers, let's agree on that.

I doubt that it is a North American elk for a couple of reasons: this species is not native to Europe and Mevans is British. So why would they have added a species unfamiliar to the main developer and the part of the world on which Middle-earth is based on?

I fully agree on your naming proposition.

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