Board Thread:General Mod Discussion/@comment-27237992-20151117180743/@comment-27723099-20151118012012

Maenor wrote: Sinthoniel wrote: What a...feudal idea to think "lords" are naturally more powerful than "normal" warriors.

But the elves during the War of the Ring were all the last survivors of a dying race. Their power waned long ago and now they only fear combat while thinking back to their old and glorious golden age.

Never compare anything from Gondolin with anything from the Third Age. In the first version of the Siege of Gondolin, heroes like Ecthelion killed lots of balrogs and dragons each. And Ulmo still openly helped Gondolin. You didn't read the comments, did you? ... We agreed long ago than the previus Elves are Long Gone ... But The actuall remaining Elf Lords would still NOT being defeated by a single Uruk-Hai ....

What a feudal  idea to think than a Uruk-Hai can Kill Elrond. I admit that I didn't read everything because I was in a hurry. But you also didn't understand my usage of the word "feudal" ;)

In the (feudal) past, lords had all power and were supreme in everything. They got weapons, armour, orses, training, so common peasants had no chance to fight them. But the truth is, most of their power comes from the men following them. Tolkien somehow reused that ideology in his stories: An army is usually not mentioned as the quality and number of the troops but as its leader's name. For example Tolkien wrote "XY came to the battle" when he actually meant that XY AND HIS MEN came. That makes it hard to separate between the actions of the individual and the actions of his followers. It could well be that not Ecthelion alone killed the dozens of balrogs, but the entire unit he led.

Now back to the mod: Uruk-hai are creatures bred only to be the most elite soldiers you could imagine. They are huge, strong, well trained, well equipped, and know no pain nor fear. The power of the elves comes mainly from their wisdom and skill collected in their long lives. I dare to state the theory that very young elves are not any more skilled than humans of the same age with the same profession. Elves don't fight with bare strength but with wisdom. They prefer to fight the enemy from afar, or charge him when he is unprepared. This strength is hard to represent in Minecraft but their ability to change weapons already gives them a good advantage if the commander is able to use it. But a leader should not be much stronger than a normal soldier, beside the option to have better equipment.