Board Thread:General Mod Discussion/@comment-47.41.55.73-20200126012758/@comment-25931200-20200220094444

69.242.54.218 wrote: Samoja1 wrote:

BlueGoldenRose wrote: Also, just to be clear, I was giving an explanation as to why they would only appear in mordor, as I'm well aware that official SoM lore says that they also inhabit other places (namely the blue mountains). If that game is fanfiction, then why don't we make fanfiction on fanfiction? I mean, Tolkien's work is technically even a fanfiction of real life. Because this is LOTR mod, LOTR, not some silly spinoff, or will you next suggest we make giamt spiders transform into skimpily clad go-go dancers? Mental image alone still makes me wanna puke. Shelob's transformation is actually one of the least offensive things in that game lore wise, at least compared to Helm Hammerhand being a Nazgul and such.

I don't think there's anything wrong with adding content from "silly spinoffs". I don't think Tolkien would approve of this kind of lore fanaticism. That being said, i don't these things should be added in their pure form. They should be modified to better suit the lore. You don't get it man, Shelob has been hunting my nightmares since before i even knew about her, AFAIK the whole giant spider trope was created by Tolkien. The fact they made her transform into a woman, imagine if she went to hug you and then transformed back, ugh, or her mask slipped for a moment. The whole, sexualizng a giant spider thing seems beyond perverse to me.