Board Thread:General Mod Discussion/@comment-26149161-20150731144946/@comment-27723099-20150801184017

Aarplane22 wrote: Sinthoniel wrote: 1. Of course you can write as much as you want about the topic here but it's unlikely that it will change things.

2. You seem to prefer the movie just because it's a good design, in your opinion. 1. I just addressed that, please read up.

2. I didn't state my points with my opinion, I gave the facts backed by lore and actual sources, compared to your clear opinion and bias. Please read back, nowhere did I ever say "I think it should be gold" or "I think there was real work done on the movies, based on some book lore and culture". Why? Because regardless of what you or I think, it is factually true that the movie design has many book roots. No opinion can change that. So don't make it seem like I pulled all of this from out of nowhere, or from myself.

But if you honestly, truly think that the bleak, boring, faded green armor in the mod is better than the flowing, golden, vibrant, detailed armor from the movie, then I have nothing else to tell you, but again--bias. It's right in front of you, but you refuse to see it. I can't help ya there. You should really think about the accusations you make about other people who are not of your opinion.

You say your posts contain no personal opinion or bias while mine are full of it. Can you tell me where in my last post I have any personal opinion? You never used the exact words "I think", sure, but that doesn't mean you never put opinion in your posts. Even in your last post, you used subjective words to compare the two armour types: "bleak, boring, faded green armor in the mod" and "flowing, golden, vibrant, detailed armor from the movie". You even act as if I prefer the mod's armour, which I never stated. I can go with what Mevans wants. And if I can't, it's not his fault.

But now I will give a personal opinion: When I watched the BoFA movie, I really disliked everything about the elven army. LOTR elves in my imagination have a strong indivuduality and especially wood elves avoid direct combat in favour of ambushes and ranged combat (note: this is my personal opinion). The elves in the movie never used a bow at all, allused the same heavy armour and this armour had a level of detail that even elves could never have crafted with the feudal metallurgy skills and equipment of LOTR. I would expect from the elven army to have mostly light armour, fight with bows and quick maneuvres, and that every elf fights more on his own than these perfectly trained group maneuvres. Wood elves are not used to open field battles. Also the numbers used in the movie (I counted 5000 elves in a single screen, more than twice as much as there really were in the BoFA) are just as unrealistic as everything else. No, I didn't like the wood elves of PJ's movie.