Board Thread:Suggestions forum/@comment-34723156-20160220175441/@comment-26149161-20180307155523

Draugluin the werewolf wrote:

In terms of dwarves with ships, well I daresay one or two dwarves might have hopped aboard Numenorean ships or airships at one point or another but I doubt a large scale dwarven migration would ever occur. Tolkien effectively wrote a history for all of Dwarves from their creation to the early years of the fourth age. With the possible exception of some petty dwarves no dwarven people seem to have had use for sailing at all.

On the other hand the Darklands could have been the ancient source of some of the hobbit's more exotic myths (dumblebdores, mewlips and fasticalons) or one could easily populate these lands with some of Tolkien's discarded ideas. The Kaukareldar- as relayed in the Book of Lost Tales: decievers and spies created by Morgoth (presumably by corrupting elves but in a slightly different manner) Or perhaps Oarni- supposedly servants of Ossë these similarly forgotten creations of Tolkien occupy a similar position to merfolk in other fictions. Perhaps an Oarni kingdom under the sea could provide some much needed entertainment whilst travelling to the Darklands in game. Airships? That idea was discarded pretty early on by Tolkien.

I'd be very cautious about adding abandoned ideas to the Dark Lands. A lot of those ideas were abandoned for a reason. With regards to a few of your proposals: Mewlips I'd say should be in Middle-earth, and Dumbledores are just bumblebees.

Ithilion, Discussions Moderator (Auta i lómë)