Board Thread:Suggestions forum/@comment-25012056-20170423012251/@comment-25012056-20170425100552

Wargaz cc wrote: Gen. Grievous1138 wrote: Wargaz cc wrote: Gen. Grievous1138 wrote: Wargaz cc wrote: Gen. Grievous1138 wrote: High King Ithilion wrote: Why is it necessary to have trees?

Ithilion, Discussions Moderator (Auta i lómë) 12:25, April 23, 2017 (UTC)

It's a forest, and the biome is much more than the Bald Hill itself.

Gen. Grievous1138 (LOTR Mod Wiki Admin) comlink 16:46, April 23, 2017 (UTC) Then why don't we split the southern part of Mirkwood to Southern Mirkwood and reduce the size of Dol Guldur? BTW, Tolkien call the mirk fir as  dark  fir, and I  don't think  it is necessary to change  that.

Dol Guldur has unique features that wouldn't work well in all of Southern Mirkwood. Dark Fir works too.

Gen. Grievous1138 (LOTR Mod Wiki Admin) comlink 18:26, April 23, 2017 (UTC) Which unique features? Olog-hai exist in Southern Mirkwood, and orcs certainly do. Orc chieftains can spawn in camps with traders like other evil factions. What else unique features does Dol Guldur have?

Dol Guldur Towers and similar structures were what I was thinking of. Per this suggestion, Mirk-Troll dens don't make much sense elsewhere, since ideally they should be in some sort of hill.

Gen. Grievous1138 (LOTR Mod Wiki Admin) comlink 21:47, April 23, 2017 (UTC) "But at the end of the Third Age a troll-race not before seen appeared in southern Mirkwood and in the mountain borders of Mordor. Olog-hai they were called in the Black Speech." (The Return of the King, Appendix F) Whether it makes sense or not, Tolkien did state that Olog-hai are present in Southern Mirkwood and Mordor Mountains. I believe Mirk-trolls just mod form of Olog-hai in Mirkwood for Mevans doesn't want to name them as "Mordor Olog-hai" and "Mirkwood Olog-hai". (actually they can be the same name, but maybe Mevans doesn't want to make any confusion.)

Aye, you are correct. But open-air cavernous dens should really only be present in a more mountainous biome, not a forest.

Gen. Grievous1138 (LOTR Mod Wiki Admin) comlink 10:05, April 25, 2017 (UTC)