Board Thread:Skin Requests/@comment-27689279-20150602030237/@comment-27689279-20150602201450

Powkchop lowrd wrote: Aarplane22 wrote: War Pig1237 wrote: Pretty nice, armor you have amazing skill but the staff will hate this I like them but they won't want to change anything about bricks textures....remember last time you suggested these... Thanks, that's kind of you to say.

I'm well aware of the mutual dislike they have towards anything from the movies (specifically the Hobbit movies, it would seem). I understand they're trying to keep everything canon, and that's great. But why they would pass up on a great design (like this BotFA one) just because of where it's from, I'll never understand; here's why.

I've already brought up a point many times in the past, that the BotFA design and the one currently in the mod would both technically be "non-canon". Because, nowhere in the books does it give a detailed description on how the Wood-elven armor should look. So in essence, both designs are equally "non-canon", which gives them both an equal right to exist, "from the movie" or not.

But as the managers of the Wiki and the mod, they're entitled to their own opinion and I can respect that. But that won't stop me from making a design that I and many others out there do prefer. I agree! Right?

From my standpoint, it's one thing to keep everything canon to a point where it stays consistent with the story, doesn't stray too far from the lore, etc. And that's great!

But it's another thing to use the "book canon" to blindly swat away anything, sometimes great things, just because it's from the "movies". When in fact, the design they themselves have implemented into the mod is essentially as "non-canon" as the BotFA one! Which is why in this subject, the "it's not from the books" point they've stated makes no logical sense.

Let me get one thing clear though. I'm not just defending the movies whole-heartedly; I definitely acknowledge that there are areas where they didn't deliver. But come on, at a certain point, you have to give credit to the design achievements they did pull through on. To simply brush off movie concepts, especially this concept that brings out the grandeur of the Wood-elven soldiers, is just flat out blind hate.