Board Thread:General Mod Discussion/@comment-25101089-20170524114315/@comment-25931200-20180918144920

I do think that updating the mod should be reconsidered, there have been many nice things added since 1.7.10, not the least of which being shields (that allow you to hold your own early game before you can get full suit of armor, and defend against those pesky archers, which previously had a free pass to shoot you as much as they wanted because there was no way to counter arrows except rush in fighting against knockback or shoot back) and recent addition of the marine life that makes oceans much more interesting and lively.

Granted earlier updates did not add that much that would change things in the mod, what with the Elytra and Shulker boxes being part of the End and most players of LOTR mod seem to tend to forget Vanilla dimensions even exist, and go pure LOTR, but the recent updates are different, if ever there was a time to update then it is now. Not to mention that many other mods expanded and updated considerably and can't be played alongside LOTR because they are on 1.12.2 mostly, so if you want to play LOTR with pretty much any other mod out there you are out of luck.

This includes Ancient warefare mod (recently updated) that adds siege engines of all kinds, and Ice and Fire mod that adds dragons, both of which would fit into a modpack with LOTR mod quite nicely.

I know that updating the mod would be a lot of work, i am just trying to present a case for updating it.