The title says it all! What are your thoughts?
The title says it all! What are your thoughts?
Are you asking if there were games played by people in the lotr universe? Or are you asking which lotr video games should have content added to this mod?
This will result in two very different answers.
I think he means are there games played by people in Middle-earth that should be in the mod. Strangely enough I can't think of any....though pebble skipping (or whatever its called) would probably be a game. Maybe you'll randomly encounter two or more people throwing pebbles into water to see who skips the farthest?
By the way, you can do that with plates. Have fun!
Hobbits played Golf, which the Orcs of Mount Gram helped invent. Bilbo was mentioned to be good at games like "quoits, dart-throwing, shooting at the wand, bowls, ninepins and other quiet games of the aiming and throwing sort." Hobbits were pretty well known for their aim, so I imagine games involving it were popular among them.
The Orcs that captured Túrin threw knives at the tree he was tied to, which sounds close enough to a game to me.
I don't know if anything's mentioned about the Dwarves and the Elves. Glóin has at least heard the story of Bullroarer and Golfimbul, and I believe it's mentioned in the early drafts of The Hobbit that he was actually fond of playing golf himself.
So currently we have golf, darts, bowls, ninepins, quoits, knife throwing, and rock skimming. One would think that there would be a form of cards.
There's also chess, which Gandalf mentions in the books.