MMeOw is currently down for the count, but please visit the LOTRO Combo Blog. It aggregates content from some of the best LOTRO-related blogs and podcasts on the net.

The Last King of Gondor

Westnovote posted this on April 22nd, 2009.
Tagged as , , , , , , , .
Categorized as Lore.
Shorthand Link: http://mmeow.net/tw1553

Related posts

8 Responses to 'The Last King of Gondor'

  1. unwize says:

    Great sum­mary!

    There was a dis­cus­sion on the EU servers last year about the how the Osgiliath stone couldn’t be the one involved due to it being too large, which only left the stone that was lost in the Bay of Forochel.

    One of the devs made a rare visit to men­tion that because the size of the Osgiliath stone is only men­tioned in Unfin­ished Tales, and not Lord of the Rings, there license doesn’t allow them to make ref­er­ence to it being of a larger size.

    I get the impres­sion that it was sim­ply a detail they over­looked until too late, or they’d prob­a­bly have reworked the story so that it didn’t con­tra­dict the lore in Unfin­ished Tales with­out actu­ally mak­ing ref­er­ence to it.

    Like or Dis­like: Thumb up 0 Thumb down 0

  2. Thorn says:

    The source mate­r­ial they could use didn’t con­tra­dict them in the size of the Stone, so they ran with what­ever fit their ideas best.

    We have sim­i­lar instances where there was mate­r­ial out­side their license that they couldn’t use so they amde their own ver­sion, such as the dis­cus­sion between Gan­dalf and Thorin in the Dwarf pro­logue or even the name of Sauron in the guise of the Gift­bringer Annatar/Antheron.

    It is a bit jar­ring, but for me does not ruin the sus­pen­sion of disbelief.

    Like or Dis­like: Thumb up 0 Thumb down 0

  3. wickedpt says:

    Exce­lent!

    One thing, where did you find that pic­ture of Amarthiel? Its wonderful…

    Like or Dis­like: Thumb up 0 Thumb down 0

  4. Westnovote says:

    Found the pic­tures here — http://​www​.mas​sively​.com/​p​h​o​t​o​s​/​l​o​r​d​-​o​f​-​t​h​e​-​r​i​n​g​s​-​o​n​l​i​n​e​-​b​o​o​k​-​1​2​-​g​a​l​l​e​ry/
    I think the Amarthiel image is con­cept art by Tur­bine. I agree with you, they are won­der­ful. I always liked the use of the mask on the in-game Amarthiel, but these pic­tures are actu­ally quite scary.

    @Thorn — I’ve not rolled a Dwarf char­ac­ter. What is the dis­cus­sion between Gan­dalf and Thorin about?

    Like or Dis­like: Thumb up 0 Thumb down 0

  5. Bravsirrobin says:

    Excel­lent post! I think that over­all Tur­bine has done an excel­lent job weav­ing their con­structed con­tent with the book lore in a believ­able fash­ion. Some­times, they have to take a lit­tle cre­ative license so that we will have a game to play :)

    Another minor lore blip: Gol­lum was stuck in Moria when the Fel­low­ship unknow­ingly stum­bled upon him, so there is no chance he would have been in the Troll­shaws for the instanced quest. Am I com­plain­ing? Not really, there prob­a­bly won’t be too many oppor­tu­ni­ties for us to inter­act with him in-game so I appre­ci­ate that lit­tle interlude.

    Like or Dis­like: Thumb up 0 Thumb down 0

  6. […] this excel­lent post at Mmeow today spurred me to write today’s entry.  Since I began play­ing LOTRO, I’ve often […]

    Like or Dis­like: Thumb up 0 Thumb down 0

  7. Jaxom92 says:

    This is a really excel­lent sum­mary and while there are numer­ous tech­ni­cal­i­ties that have been over­looked in var­i­ous places, espe­cially later in the story, the over­all feel­ing of the epic adven­ture is one that reflects that of the orig­i­nal work.

    I must say the sum­mary also helped me a great deal to coa­lesce the epic quests in my mind. I did them over such a wide space of time that I had for­got­ten details and was really only expe­ri­enc­ing the sur­face adven­ture and not the greater impact.

    Like or Dis­like: Thumb up 0 Thumb down 0

  8. Thorn says:

    West­novote, the dis­cus­sion between Gan­dalf and Thorin is about need­ing a bur­glar for the party of Dwarves, of course. But it devi­ates a bit from the dis­cus­sion chron­i­cled in Tolkien’s notes.

    Like or Dis­like: Thumb up 0 Thumb down 0

Leave a Reply




Allowed Tags: <a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <cite> <code> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q cite=""> <strike> <strong>


Note: This post is over a year old. You may want to check later in this blog to see if there is new information relevant to your comment.