Yes what I said I kinda worded wrong. I like Tolkien. I just do not like the people who claim to like him. They actually seem to like the movies more than they like the books.
I said it would have been cool if Tom Bombadil and Glorfindel would have been in the movie. And they got upset saying those are terrible characters. Most people who claim to like Tolkien only like the movies. And as for Terry as an author name. Terry Brooks is also one of my fav authors. And too bad they are purposely messing up Robart Jordans legacy. That would have made a great TV series if they hadnât of doe that. WoT MMO even could have happened too. I have read the entire series 4 times.
Each one of his books is longer than the average trilogy.
I loved the first movie. Second movie got under my skin. Third movie really irked me. What they did to the Hobbit was utterly inexcusable, especially with Beorn.
Anyone who says that about Tom and Glorfindel isnât a fan. Theyâre movie morons, plain and simple, whose opinions matter less to me than the contents of my kittiesâ litter tray.
Far less, in fact, as I like knowing the output buffers are working as intended with my kitties.
I never started WoT. I had a rule that unless I knew the length of a series, I wonât read it, that broke the rule.
I loved Shannara waaaaaaaay back in the day. Iâve moved on from it.
If I were going to list all-time favorite series though, Discworld series wins by a mile. I have that series in hard cover, paperback AND Kindle.
After that I go to authors. Mind you, I stopped counting the books in my library after 5,000. I used to read alot. Brooks and Jordan are not in my favorite authors list, unfortunately. I wonât say theyâre bad writers by a long shot. Just not in my âread to deathâ favorites list. Iâve favorite stories, favorite authors, but I love a good story.
I wonât go look at the link, no offense. I am an 11 year player of LoTRO so I know what I like about it. Between their delightful stories, housing and transmogs, not to mention the rainbow in the Shire after a rainstorm, Iâm quite content, and the Midsummer festival that was Aragorn and Arwenâs wedding that literally made me cry with how well it was done, nothing anyone can say would derail me for what I get out of the game.
That being said, there are reasons Iâve been playing on WoW for the last six months. WoW fills the gaps that LoTRO doesnât. Theyâre both still solid games, though very different.
I played off and on during Vanilla LotRO and the first two expansions or so, but thatâs mostly it. The last time I logged in was a couple years ago, I bought a level boost and wanted to play through the Rohan quest lines (which were already old content by that point, but I hadnât been playing for a long time), but I couldnât figure out where the hell to go to start that and eventually just logged off again and uninstalled.
Iâm pretty sure the family is making money off it as well in the form of licensing.
All games are made for money, itâs something one has to live with.
But Iâm not here to change your mind, I feel theyâre pretty true to the books, as much as a game can. Certainly better than the surfing elves and peevish Elf kings from the movies.
I loved it too. The last one I (tried to) read was Mogawr, I think, and Iâm not sure I finished it. I still have all the books up to that one, and I tried to start over at the beginning just a few months back, and I just couldnât get over how juvenile the writing style really is. Brooks broke into the epic fantasy genre when there was probably little competition, but there are much better writers out there these days, for sure.
This is still a great game, just a bit dated. It could use a #2 or graphics overhaul like WoW has done, but that wonât happen because it is F2P minimal effort now.
I used to log in once a year, having logged out in the christmas town, to do a quest called âewwâ. Because it was a quest called âewwâ. More games need an eww.
I have been playing fairly regularly since cataclysm
Going strong, new playersâŠlevel 140 max level.
The great thing about Lord of the rings online is they value their older content they donât Nerf it to the ground so itâs irrelevant.
And yes itâs free to play now up to I believe helms deep which is a lot of content
WatâŠitâs been made. For like a long time? AlsoâŠyeah thatâs literally any business in the history of ever, making something to make money off of it.
Ive played it in the past and raided there as a hobbit! It was awesome and similar to wow without the large mass of negative/rude people in chat. Gameplay was fun, graphics were decent when i played, classes were interesting, and they have a goant musical festival almost every summer on their RP server. Ranger (hunter) who can put fire oil on their bow to turn bow skills into fire bow skills, Minstrel having a dps or healing stance and using musical instruments as their weapon, and so on. I went back when the Blizzard and Wow sexual harrassment scandal first came into the news because i had a lot of fun in Lotro. The camera angle or controls arent the same and i couldnt figure iut how to put it like it used to be. (That sort of stuff gives me headaches/motion sickness over time).
That is known as a lie by omission, doing what you did there. Purposefully removing the word âjustâ as you know that it is correct. I said JUST to make money off of it. That means for that reason and no other reason else. They put profit before pleasure and when you do that, you get neither.
That happened to me when Turbine handed LotRO and DDO over to Standing Stone Games. I canât remember how I fixed it, but it involved emailing SSG customer service.
I poke my nose into the game now and again. Itâs a fun nostalgia trip, and given the graphical limits of its time, I think the Shire, Bree, and Rivendell look and âfeelâ pretty good.
At the very least, Iâd recommend running a character through the Shire, with special focus on the Post and pie quests. You also get to be a chicken, because, you know, some people may be into that, who am I to judge.
