Board Thread:LotR Mod Technical Support/@comment-30409692-20161211154646/@comment-27219153-20161213040104

SamwiseFilmore wrote: Well, see what's in the zips to begin with. You can't just change it, the encoding is different.

Milk, I think forge can load zips, as that's how all mods used to be.

Interesting, I was not aware that forge loaded zips. I have downloaded both those mods in the past and changed the .zip to .jar and they worked fine for me.

@Willy I guess its not necessary to change the file extensions, but I think it is useful knowledge to have even if you don't use it right now, so I'm going to tell you anyway. First open file explorer. I'm guessing you don't have file extensions showing so you can enable them by clicking View (top left) and then checking File name extensions (towards the right side) (I'm not sure if its necessary to have these enabled, but it makes it easy to change the file extension.). Then you just right click on a file, click Rename and you will see that the file extension is in the rename box. From here you can change it to whatever you want.