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[MachinaMandala]

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I'm starting to put together a mod for a Lord of the Rings themed mod. It is not going to stick exactly to Middle-Earth but I'm going to do everything I can to keep the flavour and the playstyle you could imagine from Lord of the Rings.

Patch Notes

Spoiler: v0.1.5 (click to show/hide)

Added:

• Elves - Elves are (overwhelmingly) finished. Only their magic and nobility positions need to be added to them.
• Giant spiders - Attercops (the lesser species) are finished, great spiders still need to be done. Nobility positions need to be done, too.
• Hobbits - Mostly done, not much different from humans except in terms of size.

Spoiler: v0.1 (click to show/hide)

Added:

• Orcs - Currently only really tower orcs are functional.
• Dragons - Cold-dragons (non-fire breathing) and fire-dragons (fire breathing) are currently implemented. There are plans for smoke dragons down the line.
• Languages - A LOT of language files are done.

Reworked:

• Basic civilizations. Closer to how it's going to be at the end of it.

Plans

Spoiler: Races (click to show/hide)

Humans - No work needs to be done for the time being except for splitting into two civilizations:
   "Good" humans - Standard.
   "Evil" humans - The same as above but with thief and babysnatcher added.
Elves - Split into:
   High elves - Strong, powerful and many are born with wonderful innate abilities. Able to make artifacts.
   Grey / Green elves - An interbred mix. Grey elves are lesser high elves whilst green elves are almost at a human level of power. Able to make artifacts.
Dwarves - Remove crossbows, change around some metals and these should be about right.
Hobbits - Chubby farmers who live in burrows and towns.
Goblins - Changed. Most are genderless and immortal (they have shortlived breeders who pop them out before dying) and have various castes. In addition, they have two different civilizations.
   Uruk / Orcs - "Civilized" orcs. Basically what is currently in DF but with more specialised castes.
   Goblins - "Uncivilized" orcs. Cave / cavern dwellers.
Giant Spiders - Cruel, intelligent, evil forest dwellers. Shelob / spiders of Mirkwood with various castes.
Druedain / Woses / Drugs - Men of the forest. Basically vanilla elves.

Out of these, I hope to make high elves, dwarves and hobbits playable.

Spoiler: Languages (click to show/hide)

High elven - Spoken by high elves alone. Based off Quenya.
Low elven - Spoken by grey / green elves. Based off Sindarin.
Dwarven - Spoken by dwarves. Based off khuzdul.
Humantongue - Spoken by good humans and hobbits. Based off Westron / Rohirrim.
Blacktongue - Spoken by evil humans, goblins and giant spiders. Based off black speech.
Forestspeech - Spoken by woses.

Spoiler: Megabeasts (click to show/hide)

Dragons - Cruel and greedy beasts of many shapes and sizes. Some are able to fly, some are able to breathe fire, some have four legs, some have none.

Spoiler: Other Creatures (click to show/hide)

Wargs - Great fierce wolf-like beasts often ridden by goblin-kind.

Spoiler: Curses (click to show/hide)

Wraith-curse - Desecrating a temple or seeking immortality can make a creature into a greater wraith who's soul is bound into some item upon their body (commonly a sword, crown or ring). Only by severing this from the body can they be struck down. They have the ability to raise lesser wraiths (who then can raise undead), resulting in great power.
Dragon-greed - Desecrating a temple or seeking wealth can begin the transformation into a dragon, as the dragon-greed takes over them. Some just transform whereas others begin to be able to breathe fire or grow wings.

More to come! I'm looking for suggestions!

[Genlax]

maybe numenoreans as other human civ, or maybe a rare caste. And spiders, many of many sizes

[Madman198237]

PTW

[NRDL]

PTW. Hopefully you can add in Istari/Wizards eventually.

[Asin]

A Lord Of The Rings mod? Interesting.

[MachinaMandala]

Arda v0.1 up now! Full notes up soon but the basics are:

- Orcs added in and made into dark tower civ. (Very strong at the minute, will adjust in the future.)
- Cold-dragons and fire-dragons added in.
- Ringwraiths added in.
- Basic civ work for elves, humans etc.
- FULL language files.

More to come!

maybe numenoreans as other human civ, or maybe a rare caste. And spiders, many of many sizes

I was going to do Numenoreans as a sterile civilization. So you'd only have a few at game start but they'd know dark magics etc.

Spiders are having two castes with:
Attercops - Mirkwood spiders
Great Spiders - Shelob and others of her kind. They're obviously not spiders, just spider-like. Like Shelob had a stinger, some others have human faces etc.

PTW. Hopefully you can add in Istari/Wizards eventually.

Istari are definitely going in. Likely similar to Numenoreans or animal peoples. Don't build anything, but know all the secrets relevant to them and are supremely powerful (but sterile).

[MCreeper]

Great Spiders - Shelob and others of her kind. They're obviously not spiders, just spider-like. Like Shelob had a stinger, some others have human faces etc.

God. Damn. It. Is it from Silmarillion? I didn't reaaaden it, but it seems for me that it's more "believable" than some mediocre fanfic only because it was wrighten by Tolkien himself(and other one  ). Yet it always implied that Gandalf is god, Sauron is a god, Balrog is a god, but there was many more smaller balrogs that wasn't a gods, and suchlike idiocy.

[NRDL]

Not so much gods as angels. With a lot of self-imposed limitations.

[Madman198237]

Most of their limitations are not self-imposed.

There's a LOT of lore that goes into this, but suffice to say that Morgoth and the Valar are 'angels' or perhaps greater angels, while the Maiar (Such as Gandalf, Sauron, Saruman, and the Balrogs) are all 'lesser angels'. Gandalf and Saruman are limited by the Valar in what they can do. They are intended to inspire, not outright fight, and so the Istari are much less powerful than 'regular' Maiar. Sauron is *less* powerful than a Balrog, because so much of his spirit is left both in the Ring and in his Orcs/other servants.

[NRDL]

Where does One Ring Sauron sit in terms of power, compared to his status in the Silmarillion? I'm talking Sauron wielding the ring, effectively in his prime.

[Enemy post]

Where does One Ring Sauron sit in terms of power, compared to his status in the Silmarillion? I'm talking Sauron wielding the ring, effectively in his prime.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

[Madman198237]

By the end of the Silmarillion Sauron was weak and spent a lot of time just regathering strength.

Sauron with the Ring was weaker than a standard Maiar, he had just lost a lot of strength over the ages and never regained all of it.

[MachinaMandala]

God. Damn. It. Is it from Silmarillion? I didn't reaaaden it, but it seems for me that it's more "believable" than some mediocre fanfic only because it was wrighten by Tolkien himself(and other one  ). Yet it always implied that Gandalf is god, Sauron is a god, Balrog is a god, but there was many more smaller balrogs that wasn't a gods, and suchlike idiocy.

It's mostly from the One Ring RPG, which is a licensed Middle-Earth RPG based out in the Wilderlands. Shelob definitely has a stinger in the books (Sam tricks her into stinging herself) and Ungoliant (Silmarillion, and the mother of all great spiders) is less a spider and more a spirit that takes the kind-of form of a giant spider.

Spoiler: Ungoliant (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: One Ring Great Spider (click to show/hide)

Where does One Ring Sauron sit in terms of power, compared to his status in the Silmarillion? I'm talking Sauron wielding the ring, effectively in his prime.

By the end of the Silmarillion Sauron was weak and spent a lot of time just regathering strength.

Sauron with the Ring was weaker than a standard Maiar, he had just lost a lot of strength over the ages and never regained all of it.

Sauron with ring in the Third Age would've probably been a lot weaker than himself in his prime in the Silmarillion. BUT every other power in the world has also diminished and (upon receiving the ring back) he likely would've been much stronger than near anyone else in the world as his power has been stored away in it for all this time.

[TD1]

You're a right melon.

And I mean that in the nicest way.

PTW

[MachinaMandala]

Version 0.1.5 done! Version 0.2 is coming out once I've completed great spiders and elf magic / nobility.

For version 0.3 I'm going to rework the default DF animals etc to streamline them down (so no more ten billion blue jays, cardinals etc, just songbirds).