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Fquackling wrote: S&#039;moregoth wrote: Fquackling wrote: I also suggest again the "Carillons/music boxes" they just play a loop Music and they should at each loop lose durability till breaking "They can play only when placed" also i suggest them as Items capable of "Scaring" like cats does with Creepers, all kind of undeads (so making it some Surrogate Tom bombadil for Barrows Down Explorers) , from Barrows Wraiths to any kind of Undead we will fight, creating a safe zone around the carillons that will keep the player to get hit by undeads.

maybe also being some "Boss Quest Items" i was thinking using a Music Box in front of some kind of "Dragon" Statue, would wake a Dragon boss up (maybe some Wingless Wyrm" thats why i tought they should be an Exclusive items found in some kind of Grey mountains Hoardes and not craftable (as only Dwarves would had build things so complicates like a Music Box). I agree that that would be awesome, but I don't think it quite fits with the rest of the suggestion.

Were you the one who posted this article?

Also, the idea for waking a boss up is cool, but is there anything in Tolkien's Literature that talks about that? (I'm not asking to irritate you, I just don't know.) No no, you are perfectly right! As i know there is no Lore About Carillons In tolkien's works. but Before reading that there was somebody else clever enough to come up with the fact that there isn't any music in this mod, i managed to forget (again) my last account password, but thinking that you strike the Iron when is Red, i decided to Write it down anyway (yes it was me).

The Suggestion about waking up a Boss or in this case a dragon, is just a Major literal Clichè, usually the hero put the Beast-Monster to sleep (Greeks Mythology, Norse ... also every Myth has an hero that either wake the dragon up with Playing an instrument , or slay it by putting it to sleep with a song) but instead of playing a Flute in front of the "Dragon Statue" (thing that anyone would do) we should probably need something more hard for a player to get, so renouncing one of your rare Carillons to wake up the boss could be a good way to make it more interesting and worthy.

Putting it together with the most famous Song in the tolkien literature (The song of the Ainur) i thought it would be a good way to give that Feeling of and Ancient forgotten Item bearing a Mighty power correlated to the simple notes it plays when turned on, Also if we put it togheter with this Mod suggestion of play instrument we would need some special Music you can't play or you would literally spend Mithril ingots to get from another player of the mod, thats why i thought we should have these Music Boxes with special Music inside ( so i searched for a Music box Making Site and look what i got : https://musicboxmaniacs.com/create/ ) with that anyone good enough could create several Music we could put inside the Music boxes to be found in the Ancient Treasures of the Dwarves.

Also i suggested some Special Carillons that would play a really Horrible or Strange music that would Reflect to the part Morgoth had in the Song, so putting in these ancient items also the Duality of Good and Bad that we find in Arda so much.

And lastly, the feelings i would like leave to the mod with this suggestion is, what if a Capable Smith, maybe Elvish, Maybe Dwarf, after leaving behind so many weapons made to kill, started craft instead Music boxes ? what if as we know from Tolkien literature, Music is the most powerful weapon? and that ancient Smith realized that ? Many suggested that Tom bombadil could be the rapresentation of the Song of the Ainur.

so with the music boxes that would play ancient melody related to the nature of the music in Arda itself, we could put in the mod also a "Gondolinian Sword, Of the music Instrument" rare, non craftable and with a really ancient history and worth. I agree with most, if not all, of what you said. That would be AWESOME! I need to look at that article again, but I would suggest that (if you don't have it already) you add all that to your other suggestion. Like I said earlier, I don't think that fits with this suggestion, but I'd definitely support your suggestion about carillons!