Board Thread:Suggestions forum/@comment-25356210-20150729015648/@comment-27689279-20150730215853

High King Ithilion wrote: If armor was totally by the books, why does everyone wear plate armor? Canon, they should all look more or less like this.



Saying "the canon armor is made of steel" is like saying "Coca Cola cans are made of alluminum". Both examples I listed do not give a very specific overview of design. The difference is we know design details of the Coca Cola can: mostly red, their logo, maybe some theme depending on the season or ocassion. But we don't have those details for LoTR armor, which means that this subject is pretty much left up to interpretation. This makes the design in the mod and in the movie equally uncanon. The question is, are you willing to settle for bleak, boring armor like the one in your picture (and like some designs in the mod)? Or, are you willing to incorporate concepts that were professionally designed and carefully thought-out, regardless if it's from the movies.

That's my question to the admins, and possibly even Mevans. Because blindly waving the books around, and putting everything on blast just because it's "from the movies", is getting a bit redundant. Maybe it's time to widen the horizons and allow the mod to reach a better potential in design, than holding it back with this bias...

 Elvenking of the Woodland Realm  21:58, July 30, 2015 (UTC)