Board Thread:General Mod Discussion/@comment-25101089-20170524114315/@comment-28153737-20180918173033

The way I see it, this isn't Minecraft anymore, it's LOTR Mod. If players want to play Minecraft 1.12/1.13 or whatever version, then play that version. LOTR Mod doesn't use a whole lot of Vanilla stuff anyways, and most "cool" stuff from newer versions would not even exist/be obtainable in Middle Earth. And as Bottercot pointed out above, LOTR Mod already adds most cool things that minecraft added in 1.8-1.13. Then there's compatability. I myself have never had forge work successfully with any version above 1.8. 1.7 is the tried and true version for mods, which is most likely why most poular mods are still using 1.7.10.

That's just my opinion.