Board Thread:Suggestions forum/@comment-36984938-20180922163919

So they always tell you to start off with the jokes, and I spent a long time searching for one, so there you go. I started walking around with no shoes. And soon it became a hobbit.

Anyways, I had a few suggestions for Mirkwood, that also involve Dol Guldur, and I have a few things to say about the Woodland Realm.

Flora & Fauna

First of all, Mirkwood has too much wood, and not enough mirk. I quote from ‘Flies & Spiders’ in ‘The Hobbit’ “Occasionally a slender beam of sun had the luck to slip in”. Basically, nearly the entire forest should be covered in over brush. It later says “Eventually it ceased all together”. Some more quotes are “There were black squirrels in the wood”. This means that there should be different sorts of squirrels. “The leaves that lay piled endlessly”. In the night, “Bilbo tried flapping his hand in front of his nose, but could not see it at all”. “The nastiest things they saw were the cobwebs: dark dense cobwebs with threads extraordinarily thick, often stretched from tree to tree”. The small 1x1 block cobwebs that are currently in middle earth will not do. “There were none stretched across the path”, says the narrator later on. Also, when the Dwarves do get caught with these webs, they can not get out. It requires a blade to break yourself out of these. I do not think that Sting should be the only way to break out of these. Also, when you get into one of these webs, spiders should come and rush after you, as they have caught you as their prey.

Dwarf Speech

Though off the topic of Mirkwood, I noticed that the dwarves use the word “confusticate” quite a bit, perhaps the great Mevans may add it into their speech bank?

Spiders

J.R.R. Tolkein uses the words ‘great’ and “giant” to describe the spiders. I suppose the tiny spiders currently in the mod could fit this description, however in Peter Jackson’s films we see ENORMOUS spiders. I believe that this is how Peter Jackson intended the spiders to be. Also we can inference that they were this size, as no spider the size of the small and medium ones in the mod could possibly wrap up a hobbit or dwarf single single handed. The tiny and medium spiders of Dol Guldur, and Mordor should be entirely cut out, as they are non-canon.

The Woodland Realm

This kingdom is underground, and much smaller than how it is in the mod. The fact that I can ride a barrel to the house of one of the Silvan Elves and slay it’s occupants is not at all canon. I should have to make my way through an entrance, to the underground kingdom of the Woodland realm.

Dol Guldur

Should be smaller, as it is only one fortress, possibly surrounded by camps and towers. Enough said.

I hope that these minor suggestions sway the mind of Mevans the wise. Though quite simple, they do a great contribution to the realism of Tolkein’s ideas of Mirkwood.  