2017

>2017
>STILL no Silmarillion game

Wake me from this nightmare

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>this isn't a boss battle

The Silmarillion, or as some know it, The Bible but with no real world context.

The bible being forced to have real world context means you can't get as interesting fantasy art. Confirmed worse book.

>You will never die in the battle of unnumbered tears.

Bible is shit tier nonsense compared to Silmarillion.

Silmarillion would be an awful game actually. Too much jumping around and the time spans are too long.

If you just want to explore Tolkien shit through a game, is Shadow of Mordor any good?

Nah.

It shits on the lore, but it's still a fun game. If you don't mind that it's worth playing.

Nope.

I would pay so much for a battle of helm's deep game that plays like Mount and Blade

I wasn't a dark souls clone set in the depths of angband, you could play as an elven prisoner who's gotten free, sneaking around and killing orcs, werewolves, vampires, dragons, balrogs, etc etc as you try to get out, and get revenge on morgoth maybe, shit I don't know

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I'm always torn on the subject of Silmarillion games or movies. I want it but deep down I feel there is a 70% chance it will end up being shit.

That game is fun and all , but it is garbage in terms of lore.

Tolkien never advocated vengeance, the game is just that revenge porn.

It's not the spirit of the books nor that of the protagonists.

It's a sad cash grab that only sold because it had lotr lore, it would be an ok game if the setting was different and created it's own story.

Maybe if some developer was actually interested in the books the way cdpr were then we might have a chance.

A movie would need to be multiple movies with extremely expensive sets,and good director.

Peter jackson did an ok job with the first 3, less so with the last 3 movies, because when a franchise becomes so profitable it shits gold corporate mongoloids want to keep feeding it garbage

The only scene i liked in the hobbit is bilbo and smaugh talking, and even that felt like plastic, the whole movie felt like plastic toys.

Sad

No it's not

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Are the Tolkien books worth reading? Trying to get back into reading. I remember I had to read The Hobbit in grade school but I didn't understand shit.

Hurin's Children, other than that, no.

I'll tell you what everyone would tell you. The trilogy starts REAAALLY slow. There's this infamous 100 page barrier of hobbits doing English summer vacation nonsense and reminiscing traditions.

If you want to get back to reading, start with something short and intense eg Jonathan Livingston Seagull or something

Cool thanks. I picked up Catch 22. Haven't started it yet but heard it's great.

>The trilogy starts REAAALLY slow. There's this infamous 100 page barrier of hobbits doing English summer vacation nonsense and reminiscing traditions.
re-reading LOTR here, almost done with ROTK

honestly that opening section of LOTR that you're talking about is something i fucking love

just how comfy it is
Just like in the movie, the slow opening in the Shire is the most comfiest shit imaginable

> you will never live in the Shire

If you're getting back into reading try Raymond Carver, the guy is easy to read and pretty good, and absolutely read the classics, don't stay on fantasy / sci-fi, You'll see how badly written they actually are (most of them).
Oh, and a side note; Don't visit /lit/, it's always the same shit, most of it is good, but they talk about 50 books, that's it.

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> DEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAATH

post god tier LOTR scenes

How would you even get across the sheer scope of what happened in the Silmarillion?

You can't even properly convey the events of LoTR that sort of jump into the realm of Silmarillion stuff like where Gandalf fought the Balrog for like 13 fucking days straight without rest.

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Why read it when you can listen to Christopher Lee read it?

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Noo. Don't listen books, man.

It's pretty good. The story is even interesting on its own merits but it's really not great when it comes to LotR.

The Shire stuff is pretty neat.

The Ent stuff is the worst damn shit.

What a shame that he died
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what is this

> what can men do against such reckless hate?

>listening to books
>being unable to imagine the voices of characters
no thanks

Looks like Avernum, based on the style and filename.

>Siege castle
>Maintain fields
>Keep the siege up for years until the fuckers inside die of starvation or you wear out some fortification

It's just not possible to go full turtle anywhere is there? As long as someone has the determination wait around for x amount of time you're fucked inside the walls.

>listening to books
>being unable to imagine the voices of characters

That is not the reason you listen to books

This is common sense

The city is hidden my man

Well yeah.

But in that picture surely you could try to hold them at some mountain pass.

Pelenor fields were protected by mountainside and by outlying keeps/walls outside of frame.
Plus humans weren't really all that set on betraying their own kin, Elves didn't even venture that far, and dwarves gave 0 shits about human cities if they weren't being asked to help build them
goblin/orc raiders were the most that would roll by and be hostile

Its the worst game i have ever played

Your taste is the worst damn shit. The ent parts were awesome. Especially that god damn war march song they sing before heading to Isengard. It rarely happens that mere text sends shivers down my spine.

>you will never be able to play out fingolfin's smackdown on morgoth

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Nigga even the characters are bored during those parts. I couldn't tell if the book was doing it on purpose to try to get across the point of how fucking bored everyone was of trees talking to each other.

Then it would cut to the other hobbits going on daring adventures.

Now back to the trees, they're still doing fucking nothing.

Books are better in audio format.

You can't read books while driving.

Isn't that dangerous? I can't do anything else while driving.

That's exactly why it was so fine. Everything suddenly was moving at a snails pace compared to everything else. It would have been majorly boring if the whole book was like that, but just as a part I think it fit everything pretty well.

>not listening to need for speed music while driving, so you get pumped and become able to do crazy overtaking maneuvers so you reach your destination faster

>ywn live in the shire

Kill me now

Yeah! Get Low!

I'm curious to hear an answer to this too. I too cannot concentrate on driving well enough if there's some music or audio book.

>wanting to live in the shitr and not rivendell

>Turin
Whar the fuck was this guy's problem?

Shouldn't you be worrying about breaking your precious nails you fucking gay ass elf?

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>surely you could try to hold them at some mountain pass.

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You got that picture with the two giant trees?

It' s very pretty.

>we will never enter it

that looks cool

user should i torrent lotr audio books and listen to them

He was too badass for this world.

>just 7 different QTE promps

I'm not even a lotr/Tolkien fan but Nightfall in Mifdle-Earth is one of the best music albums ever released and you should heck it out if you don't know about it.

Imagine the bitching.

> No quick travel
> Walking down this path to the city for an hour
> Nothing but farms on either side
> Need to occasionally stop and eat elf bakery products
> Game literally outlasts your lifetime

Imagine playing as Ungoliat and suddenly balrogs appear after Melkor screeched like a baby.

Came here to post about it.

NIIIIIIGHTFAAAAAAL

I've only listened to some of the Silmarillion but it seems like a lot of what I heard was surprisingly undetailed.

I'm sure there are parts that are like 80 pages on the bloodline of one elf, but at some other points it seems like "And they battled. Then 200 years later a rider rode out and did something. 600 years later a ship arrived"

Literally this.

>Not Eurobeat

my nigga, I was just about to post this

Thanks user, that's some fun shit - anything else like that?

>prog metal
>anything metal

End yourself

>hating on Blind Guardian
How can one man be such a massive faggot.

OKAY IM INTRIGUED
BEEN LOOKING FOR SOMETHING TO READ
RATE THIS 1-10 and state why

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>I know from clear memory that I would not want to re-experience some of those moments again with my own child; the anxiety, the illnesses, the exhaustion..but what wouldn't I give to be able to go back to some of those moments in more than memory? The pain is only made bearable, the sadness only made blessed by love and by art.
>Reading is a kind of doubled conciousness, existing somewhere between pure memory and lived experience. When we look at our own children, we see not only their current forms but all they have been before. In this kind of doubled perception, love and sadness are intertwined.

>no BOTNS game
someone pls kill me

>The ruin in the landscape, or the textual ruin created by all of Tolkien's techniques catalyses this change, linking together the imagination, the current experience and recollection, intwining the past and the present with each other so that they are, in Aragorn's dying words, more than memory. More than memory transmutes the pain of exile, of separation and loss through the movement of time, the "Heimweh", into something still sad but now, as Tolkien says of the tears of the hobbits at their parting at the Grey Havens, blessed, without bitterness.
>The past is everywhere and yet at the same time out of reach, overlaid permanently by the present, worn away by time and change and even fallible memory. You don't have to wait a quarter century from the time of some of your most cherished memories to have this feeling, though such a gap certainly accentuates it. The price of a memory is the memroy of the sorrow it brings, says the song. Pain for the lost home, is common to every human as we are separated from our childhoods, from our youths, from our first experiences.
>How do you read Tolkien? By paying attention to the ways that different features of his works combine to produce and transform sadness not into bitterness, but into something richer, greater, something fully human. Reading Tolkien this way you see the true scope of his achievement to touch the heart and you understand how much more fully how Sam's words "Well, I'm home." are both joyous and heartbreaking.

10 because

Read Children of Hurin.
It's 10/10.

The hardest stuff to get through is all the songs and how long they are.

why would you want to see something well-written turned into a game? is gene going to write it? otherwise it would be an abomination

It's very choppy because of the scale of what he was going for and also because it was put together from notes after he died.

dude it was released like silmillion years ago

My fucking nigger, I grew up playing Exile 3, and iirc Avernum 3 is literally the same thing

This could make a good open-world game.

>still no mmo based around the discworld world
end me

Hopefully if a Silmarillion game is ever made it's when the tech is available to do the book justice

EVERYBODY POINT AND LAUGH AT THE CHRISTFAG

This isn't the fedora zone you know.

Just make the mod instead for mount&blade

>2017
>Believing in invisible faeries

Come now son

>wanting a Silmarillion game in 2017

What's stopping you?

This interpretation,

>Tolkien never advocated vengeance, the game is just that revenge porn.
>It's not the spirit of the books nor that of the protagonists.

Really grabbed my attention. Thanks for that, user, you've given me something to think about.

>Peter jackson did an ok job with the first 3, less so with the last 3 movies

Absolutely not his fault. He was cleaning up someone else's mess with the Hobbit.

It sucks how that's ruined his rep.

>muh silmarilladingdong

the hobbit has very clean-cut, enjoyable songs. 'fifteen birds' is a personal favourite. same for 'bilbo baggins' plates' and the dwarven song of the misty mountains, really.

you just have to understand that the hobbit has poems and limericks for the common man (the halflings and dwarves), while the lord of the rings for the most part has bards' tales and recitals from wizards, ents, and generations of men, which are passed down timelessly as tradition and are intended (as it was at the equivalent time in reality) to be ballads, plays, and full stories, though condensed into a time that people of the age would be able to enjoy it in their incomparably busy days.

>still no Earthsea game

Then again, how much of a shitfit would Sup Forums have when they realize that the only white people in the setting are northern barbarians?

I could see some grand strategy game where you politic between elven, dwarven and eventually human kingdoms meanwhile you wage eternal war against Morgoth.

>the only white people in the setting are northern barbarians
Seems true to real life.