User:Catfishperson

Greetings fellow LOTRers, I am Catfishperson! The story of how I came to the world of Arda is a long one, so I will give you a brief summary. I have not proofread any of this, the person who spots the most typos gets a shoutout

'It began long before the first age. Shortly after Melkor came to Arda, before he bred the orcs, he created me, an eight foot tall humanoid-ish catfish (forerunner of all catfish) to help him disrupt the progress of the Valar. However, despite torturing me, he found he couldn't control me, and he threw me into the East Sea, somewhere near the western coasts of the Dark-lands, and none but he and Eru knew of my existence for that time. There I lay in the infinite darkness, terrified of the world and my creator for ages forgotten too all. It is during that time that I think I became sentient and began to have actual thoughts and ideas of my own (remind you of someone?). Then for the first time since my creation, I crawled onto shore. It was shortly after that, that for the first time since Eru created the Ainur, light shined on the world. It was nothing more then a small glimmer far, far in the north-west, but it was there, and it was beautiful!(Later I learned that this was Ormal, one of the great lamps that the Valar created) That was the happiest moment I ever had, or ever will. For a while I was content to simply gaze upon the horizon in bliss, but then, I began to yearn for more, I wanted to see the source of the light up close, to posses it. Yet at the same time, some great foreboding came to my mind whenever I set my mind upon beginning the great journey. It was almost as if I somehow understood that my creator abode in that direction, and that a great calamity was soon to partake that land. Yet in that time, I laid my first set of eggs. Now it is said that I will only lay five sets of eggs, and each time my children will be different. And this time my brood was more like to me in all ways then any other of my children, for they took the same shape as me, although their height varied from three to eleven feet. And we created a great fortress on the western coast of the dark lands with an underwater tunnel entrance.'

'Now I had finally gotten the courage to forsake my home for a time and journey into the west to explore the light, and it would seem that the will of Eru was at work, for the very day that I arrived within view of Ringol, was the day that the hosts of Melkor destroyed it. There came a great host of demons led by my creator himself. In fear I hid behind a large rock, and I heard a great noise, the sound of the great pillar falling. And there were great earthquakes and storms. I fled quickly, seeing a wave of fire chasing me, and in that moment Melkor felt my presence, I think he had forgotten about me, but now he remembered, and he sent one of his Balrogs to follow me. I reached the Ocean just in time and jumped in, but the Balrog would not follow me any farther, having confirmed what his master suspected, and simply stared at me as I swum away.'

'When at last I arrived at my fortress, I slept for twelve days. Then I had a snack. After that I thought about what I had seen. Strangely the most useful thing I learned was the idea of weapons and armor. It may seem like a surprise, but the idea of using tools to enhance one's fighting ability had never crossed my mind. Of course, I couldn't extract or refine steel or any other metal at that point, but my children and I were able to make rudimentary spears and clubs out of sticks and stones. There was no great enemy for me and my children to fight at that point, but these greatly enhanced our hunting ability. The Dark lands were a bountiful and lush forest in that day, the likes of which lands east of Aman have never seen sense the changing of the world, nor will ever see again until the final battle when the world is made new. Using this new idea, food was in plenty, and my children quickly multiplied. Over the course of many centuries, my small fortress became a large city, a kingdom even. Of course I missed the light that the lamps had provided, but I no longer feared the darkness, I felt no one could reach me here, so far away from any other intelligence, in my little city, high on my thrown. And eventually, new light came in the form of the sun and the moon, not constant, but more then just a glimmer far in the west. And I began to forget about my creator and the years of torment I had endured from him, for for the first time in my life, I felt truly happy, content with my life in a paradise of plenty. And eventually, the light returned in the form of the sun and the moon. Sure, these were less constant, they were close, closer then the light from the lamps had been.'

To be continued... soon.

Fun facts about me
 * When in human form, I am told that I have a blonde afro.
 * I have memorized over 120 digits of pi.
 * I play clarinet, bass clarinet, bass drum and mostly bassoon
 * In addition to my pet catfish, I also have a pet dog, and a pet little brother...
 * I like root beer
 * I have read The Lord of the Rings, "The Hobbit," The "Ainulindale," The "Valaquenta" the  "Akallabeth," "Of the forging of the One"  and the "Silmarillion"
 * Don't eat catfish
 * In my free time I enjoy reading, composing music using "Garage band,"  calculus, and playing minecraft Lotr (here's a link to the wiki  if you ever want to check it out, which I highly suggest) http://lotrminecraftmod.wikia.com/wiki/The_Lord_of_the_Rings_Minecraft_Mod_Wiki

Of my custom rings of power.
Now the ring forging mechanic is planned, and when it comes, it will be awesome, but I've gotten a little bored waiting, so I decided to make my own custom rings of power using commands to entertain me until ring forging comes. Most of these commands are long enough that they will require a command block to enter, to get one use the command: /give @p command_block

then copy and paste the ring command into the console. Then just add red-stone power (this can be a switch, a button, a pressure plate, etc.

Ring of speed.
This will give players a crazy speed boost while worn.

/give @a lotr:item.lotr:goldRing 1 0 {AttributeModifiers:[{AttributeName:"generic.movementSpeed",Name:"generic.movementSpeed",Amount:50,Operation:1,UUIDMost:72349,UUIDLeast:168710}]}

more coming soon.

My suggestions.

 * Dragon Skeletons
 * A Few Small Suggestions
 * Dyeable pouches.
 * Poisen berries.
 * More/Better horns of command.
 * Foodzzz
 * Angmar related stuff.
 * A few notes on combat.
 * Some command and NPC chat stuff.
 * Assorted Ideas and Improvements.
 * Better Suits of Armour and Weapon Racks.