Board Thread:Suggestions forum/@comment-25012056-20170204004106

Hey comrades! Recently I had an idea only to find that NightsOfDarkness had posted a similar idea first. However, as I had considerably more in different ways, I have decided to put my take on this up here anyway, as it is different enough to merit a second suggestion. If you like this idea, please go kudos Night’s thread as well.

This suggestion is one to deepen the world of LOTRMC and make the several thousand years of LOTR lore as apparent in the game as in the books themselves. The suggestion is simple: books left in a variety of structures. Ranging from logs to poems, these would serve as reasons to search for structures and cool collectible bits of lore.

Books would appear as written books, which can now have their covers dyed in the same way as basically everything else that is dyeable. They would be written by random generated NPC names that would fit with the type of book.

Structures with books, by faction
Note that not every faction gets book structures. Some, like Rohan and Dunland, are said to not write books. Others don’t have much to write about.

Hobbits

 * Hobbit Hole - The Tale of the Bullroarer (Story of the Battle of Greenfields), various genealogies, perhaps some recipies

Rangers of the North

 * Ruined Arnor Tower - (What kind of ruined structure doesn’t have some kind of old, cool logbook?) Angmar Attacks (log), Amon Sûl Burns (log), Fornost Siege (log)
 * Dunedain Lodge - Fornost Falls (poem), The Splintering of Arnor (story), The Tale of Arvedui (rare poem)

Blue Dwarves

 * Blue Dwarven Stronghold - The Sinking of the Mountains (rare story of the forming of the Gulf of Lune), The Smiths of Nogrod (story of Telchar), Fire and Steel (story of the battle with Glaurung)

High Elves

 * High Elven Hall - Tale of Beleriand (poem), The Shaping of Arda (rare poem), The Sons of Faenor (poem), The Fall of Gondolin (poem), Beren and Luthien (poem, very abridged), The Children of Hurin (poem, very abridged), The Fall of Gil-galad (poem)
 * Underwater Elven Ruins - Tale of Beleriand (poem), The Shaping of Arda (rare poem), The Sons of Faenor (poem), The Fall of Gondolin (poem), Beren and Luthien (poem, very abridged), The Children of Hurin (poem, very abridged), Orc Attack (log)

Gundabad

 * Ruined Dwarven Tower - The Fall of Gundabad (log), the Fall of Moria (log)
 * Captured Dwarven Tower - The Fall of Gundabad (log), the Fall of Moria (log), the Battle of Azanulbizar (rare log)

Angmar

 * Angmar Tower - The Fall of Angmar (log), the Purge of Cardolan (rare log), the Sack of Fornost (log)
 * Rhudaur Castle - The Hillmen Rebellion (log)

Dol Guldur

 * Dol Guldur Tower - The Necromancer Returns (log of Sauron’s return after fleeing into the East), Khamûl (log of the return to Dol Guldur not long before the present day of the mod)
 * Ruined Wood-Elven Tower - Shadow on the Forest (log of the Mirkwooding of Mirkwood), Spiders (log of the infestation), Prisoner of Dol Guldur (rare log about a scout returning from Dol Guldur absolutely insane)

Durin’s Folk

 * Dwarven Tower - Khazad-dûm (rare poem), The Fall of Erebor (story), The Battle of the Five Armies (story), The Song of the Lonely Mountain (poem)

Gondor

 * Gondor House - Of Númenor (rare poem), The Last Alliance (poem), Isildur (story), The Might of Gondor (story), The Last King (poem)
 * Gondor Ruins - The Uruks in Ithilien (log), Osgiliath Attacked (log), Wainriders Attack (log)
 * Ruined Gondor Tower - The Uruks in Ithilien (log), Osgiliath Attacked (log), Wainriders Attack (log)

Near Harad

 * Harad Pyramid - The Might of Harad (poem), The Serpent-Emperor (story), Karseius the Great (extremely rare story, because why not)

Tauredain

 * Tauredain Pyramid - The Tauredain Empire (story), The Mumak’s Rage (poem), The Strength of the Jungle (rare story)
 * Tauredain Mansion - The Fall of the Empire (story), The Mumak’s Rage (poem)

Achievements
[Collector] - Collect 10 different types of lore book and have them in your inventory at once. (Has corresponding title)

[Librarian] - Collect 25 different types of lore book and have them in your inventory at once. (Has corresponding title)

Sample
The Fall of Moria - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1P3P3R4vqGMHJZNB_h0uXboAq-3dmnkiG9liLQ61KG3A

Gen. Grievous1138 (LOTR Mod Wiki Admin) comlink 00:41, February 4, 2017 (UTC) 