Board Thread:Suggestions forum/@comment-26065088-20160221175323/@comment-27200931-20160518162347

Gorbag12 wrote: Dragonovith wrote:

The Lord of Minas Morgul wrote: Why no gulduril? Gulduril doesn't seem like the kind of thing an orc would use to decorate his cozy blacksmith house. Also, Gulduril has a "rare stuff" feeling, like Mithril. You look at Mithril and then you think "damn, that looks valuable, I should keep that", and that's the same thing with Gulduril. I don't know how to explain well.

The more I read what I wrote, the more it looks like gibberish. Damn, I'm tired. I better retire to my underground lair, need some sleep. Yes, I live like an hobbit, a vampire hobbit actually.

But it then doenst give a minas morgul feeling. Gulduril crystals are magic items, you can't just put it everywhere. In Tolkien's Middle Earth, magic is very subtle, confined to recluse places of the world. Putting glowing walls everywhere banalize something as special as magic is.

Minas Morgul means Tower of Dark Sorcery, there you can expect glowing walls because it is a special place filled with dark magic. This evil magic, by the way, is so strong that resonates on the very walls of the citadel.

To demote gulduril crystals to simple decorative items goes against the philosophy of magic we find on Middle Earth.