All posts by JH1226

Yeah, definitely does not comply with the EULA.

The server needs to respect the EULA of the game. You may think that Mojang has no juristition power over one minor server or such, this shows that you do not abide within their Terms and Conditions, which may have inavertedly tarnished your server's repeutation and discourage people from joining your server. I would like to know what your microtransactions provide the user.

I like your suggestions to the Balrog, but I'd like to give some suggestions:

Balrogs are beings of shadow and flame and carried swords and whips. Although I like oyur idea of making the Balrog a buff, their numbers needs to be decreased significantly. After all Tolkien stated that there were probably "at most" seven Balrogs in existance.

Balrogs could probably give out three types of attacks: fire-based, melee, and shadow-based. The shadow-based attack could be blindness to the player or some other effect that decreases the player's vision. (they could also appear bigger than they actually are). Fire-based attacks are your average whip attacks, and melee attacks are attacks wih a sword.

The second stage could involve the Balrog's attack increase twofold as it tries desperately to fend off his enemies.

How about the elves...

Ióviennil Athaedir Istuion ^{(message me)} 05:47, April 13, 2019 (UTC)

You normally cannot see elvish fear floating about in the world. You need to enter the wraith world, which is one of the reasons the elves of Eregion builded the Rings of Power. Elvish fear can refuse to enter the Halls of Mandos, but that is usually because they were afraid of the judgement they'd find in Mandos, thus in a way those who remained in Middle Earth as diembodied fear are techincally guilty of some crime, at least before the elves faded, which happened in the Fourth Age and beyond.

IIRC there's a theory that the barrow-wights are elvish fear activly seeking out bodies.

Ióviennil Athaedir Istuion ^{(message me)} 05:23, April 13, 2019 (UTC)

There were at least six tribes of the Avari: Kindi, Cuind, Hwenti, Windan, Kinn-lai, Penni. Of which the Penni merged with their kin the Nandor elves in the Vales of the Anduin, becoming the Silvan Elves and establishing the settlements in Eryn Galen and Líndorinand. One tribe of Avari (I presume) lived in Dorwinion in mod-lore. Others lived in Beleriand, Eriador, the Vales of the Anduin, and in Rhûn. So in theory you can put Avari tribes everywhere. Feel free to make up you own tribes too.

Steel, iron and bronze are used historically as materials for arrowheads. Maybe a crafting recipe for such kinds of arrowheads using crafting tables?

Anyways, you need to also think of a way to get that feather (or plume) for that arrow. Perhaps give shears the extra ability to shred chickens of their feathers.

Adding on the examples of outdated Elvish use.

I amar prestar aen, han mathon ne nen, han mathon ne chae a han noston ned wilith. This sentence is great in its once time, but sadly many discoveries on Sindarin had been discovered after the films were aired, especially on the past tense. Thus this sentence had become inaccurate in grammar. So a somewhat correct Sindarin phrase would be: Prestannen i Amar. De felin vi nên, de felin vi gef, a de noston vin gwilith. Remember that even now Sindarin is subject to change, as there is still a major document on Sindarin that hasn't been released yet.

The rudest word an elf would mutter would be "Ego!", which basically means "F*** off" or "Begone" if you want to sound archaic.

It won't make sense for the Silvan Elves to learn Quenya. Quenya was banned by Elu Thingol in Beleriand in the First Age, and since then Sindarin had become the Lingua Franca of Elvendom.

As an added bonus: Elves don't use the names of the Valar lightly, see here for more information. I won't mind if you use the speech bank  of RealElvish. In fact, I think Fiona won't mind too, as she made it for RPG purposes.

BTW: There is a poem called Markirya that perfectly captures the sea-longing elves. Makes for good dialogue!

Branching off from the discussion that had occurred on the Discord server:

In the last years of JRRT’s life, he actually changed his mind on the origins of the Orcs. You see, there are several problems that come with the Orc = Elves backstory: why didn’t they have immortality? And what would happen if they go to the Halls of Mandos? Do they remain as Orcs for eternity or return to their normal Elven state? Similarly, Men = Orcs also have some problems: How would they be present in Dagor-nuin-Giliath if they were first awoken when the Sun first rose? In the last years of his life, JRRT changed his mind: MR/378 suggest that Men actually awoke during the Great Journey. The first "Orcs" that Elves saw at Cuiviénen were weak Maiar. This is not actually a contradiction, because Tolkien explicitly states that originally that Urco (Quenya for Orc) originally just meant "Bogey, Apparition", or anything that scared the Elves along the way on the march. There are actually no timeline issues here. JRRT did also suggest at some point that there may have been some Orcs that were originally some Avari mixed in with the stock of men, but he wasn't really conclusive about this. https://eldamo.org/content/words/word-558893647.html

CJRT chose to use the "Orcs are corrupted Elves" in the Silmarillion because he thought that it fit the best with the timeline, but he has since said that he would have put in the "Orcs are corrupted Men" had he thought about it for longer. More information could be found in Morgoth’s Ring: Myths Transformed, or this website: http://www.thetolkienforum.com/index.php?threads/origin-of-orcs.20374/

My intention is not to uproot the current lore of the Mod, but rather to weave different parts of the Legendarium together. Having tormented elves in Utumno would surely be possible, as Morgoth did capture elves when they lived near the shores of Cuiviénen, but I believe having Tormented Men in Mordor and Isengard would make sense. It could be used to indicate somewhat the degradation brought by the amount of torment that poor man had suffered. "The Shadow that bred them can only mock, it cannot make: not real new things of its own." Thus they would degrade like: Tormented Men > Uruk > Orc > Goblin. This, however, is only my little theory.