Board Thread:Suggestions forum/@comment-38591966-20190625100826/@comment-34030170-20190625165137

DentedEar wrote: I really like the idea of having two factions of dwarves in the Red Mountains with one being Evil because the mountains are so big!

However, I doubt any of the Dwarvern clans would go to serve Sauron and personally think the Evil Dwarves shoul found their own people, more similar to what happende with the Petty Dwarf outcasts in Beleriand.

Your textures are great and clearly a lot of effort has gone into them! At the moment though, they seem at little to far from the ordinary dwarf textures but this could easily be reconciled by having Northern Red Dwarves use weapons and armor of a style which blends that of the western Dwarves and yours.

Brilliant work! There were Dwarves who fought for Sauron in the War of the Last Alliance, and some Dwarves have also been known to make alliances with Orcs. That being said, I prefer the idea of something like Dwarven mercenaries looking to increase their wealth and power to entire evil clans, and the good-Dwarves should outnumber the evil, even in the East.

Now for my thoughts on the suggestion:

The blunderbuss sounds like a bad idea, in my opinion. If any race in Middle-earth was to invent guns, it would almost definitely be the Orcs, and definitely not at this time. A bow or crossbow would be better.

Armour textures are very nice, especially the helmet. I'd add some more of the palette you have on the helmet to the rest of the equipment. All the items and blocks you've presented could maybe do with being less red. With the amount of iron in the Red Mountians, I'd say it should be closer to a rust-colour.

The weapons on the other hand are too Mordor-esque to me, and they have that same problem of too much red. Less spikes and torture-device additions would be nice. There may be evil Dwarves, but they should still be Dwarves.

Blocks, again, less red. But their textures are otherwise nice, and the banner looks good.

Builds are too evil-looking for my tastes, although the quarry is nice.

Aurochs don't really make sense. The Dwarves are small, and something that big would be a bad mount.