Board Thread:General Mod Discussion/@comment-26149161-20150731144946/@comment-27723099-20150801180244

Yes, the movie design has many adaptions. That's mainly because LOTR became popular through the movie in the first place and many people have seen the movies before reading the books, or even never read the books. Maybe it'sa "better" design but it's just the movie design, not a general LOTR design. This mod is Mevans' work and follows Mevans' design. Mevans has seen the movie and read the books, so his design is influenced by both works. The world that you can see in the mod is how Mevans (and the mod team) imagines the world of LOTR (or wants it to be), partially limited by coding difficulties or changed to maintain playability. It's obvious and understandable that the result can often go against the majority of opinions. In fact, you can do almost nothing that does not go against the majority of opinions.

The mod is Mevans' own world. In your resource pack you can change the mod to your own imagination and nobody has the right to force you to change your resource pack because they don't like it. Of course you can write as much as you want about the topic here but it's unlikely that it will change things.

You seem to prefer the movie just because it's a good design, in your opinion. By that logic, no new LOTR (book) adaptions could be started because everything is unfinished and "bad" in the beginning. But copying from a single source is no work and creates nothing new. Mixing different sources does create something new.