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I would kill for a cinematic adaption of the "Children of Húrin". But on the other hand, that is a deeply tragic story, bleak AF, and without happy ending, so any adaption would probably butcher it to the point of unrecognizability, so I'll just cherish the book(s) and be content. If RoP has...

In canon the 3 elven rings were actually made last, except for the One Ring. The 16 others (along with other, "lesser" rings) were crafted before that by the Gwaith-i-Mírdain (Celebrimbor&Co) and Annatar together. Then, Annatar left Eregion (presumably to craft the One) and the elves, having...

What a disappointement this show has been. If they placed magnets around Tolkien's coffin, Europe's energy crisis for the coming winter would be solved.

I'm well enough versed in history to know all this, if that's what you mean. I have no qualms excising plate armor from a setting and upgrading other types of armor to a higher AC. For a high-medieval game I'd probably have brigandine as heavy armor, chainmail as medium and padded as light. I'd...

This is a good and important point. For myself —and I'm only speaking for myself here!— I want a (pseudo-)historic "medieval" setting because that's what I enjoy most, so the fantastic elements (magic, monsters, even other races of humanoids) HAVE to be rare/dangerous/untameable/antagonistic and...

Hârn is truly astonishing and exceptionally well-made. The only things I've never truly been able to "grok" yet are its religion and magic systems. But in terms of sheer medievalism, really nothing comes close to Hârn.

Some of it is. Like the ancestry of Orcs. In the Silmarillion (and this show) it's Elves, but later in his life, Tolkien meant to change that to Humans. Because the implications of them having been Elves are.... numerous. Also, the lineage of Gil-Galad. If he had been the son of Fingon...

While I do love me some medieval times (as opposed to Renaissance and later!) I am fully aware that fantasy RPGs unfortunately are bad at implementing actual feudalism. My ideal setting is one as it existed BEFORE or at the very start of the Middle Ages, i.e. the Migration Period. It has...

Yeah, it'll be like GoT where 800 (or even 1,3k) miles of travel will take a couple days at best. [emoji19][emoji19][emoji19]

Because this is a show about the 2nd Age, as far as I'm aware. The show has depicted the entrance of (what will become) Moria as not yet having the Ithildin-encrusted gates crafted by Narvi and Celebrimbor during the height of the elven kingdom of Eregion. If the Balrog devastates Khazad-Dûm...

But does that apply to 3rd Age events also? I was under the impression it would only apply to 2nd Age events. Compressing is one thing, but completely jumbling, thats another thing alltogether!

The Lonely Mountain is only colonized in 1999 Third Age, with Thráin I being the first "King under the Mountain".

To add to what @Mercurius was saying, the Valar were loathe to intervene because whenever they did, it had disastrous consequences for Arda itself.

No, Shelob is in the Cirith Ungol (Mordor) as her mother, Ungoliant has, so it is told, devoured herself to satiate her own hunger. The spiders in Mirkwood are offspring of Shelob.

That's the neat part, though: it undercuts dipping for purely mechanical reasons. [emoji3526]

Why not? Or maybe "if you multiclass, you need to keep both classes at the same level as much as possible."

As billd91 already said ...according to their own words, the showrunners are both forbidden to use material from the Silmarillion AND to blatantly contradict it! I can understand that this is an uncomfortable situation for the writers to be in, but I think they've maneuvered themselves on thin...

There's literally an entire book about what happened to/with the Silmarils. They are one of the central elements of the First Age. This is not "changing some minor thing" like compressing the timeline.

Just when I started to warm up and even look forward to the show, the showmakers take another dump on established canon. At every point of the history of Arda, the 3 Silmarilli are accounted for: After their theft by Morgoth they are all 3 in his iron crown until Beren steals one. That one goes...

Just wanted to chime in regarding this. Of course original B/X is still available, in digital form and possibly (I haven't checked) POD. What OSE has going for it is the excellent layout, print quality, and format. Even if I had original B/X copies or a POD veraion, I'd still choose OSE. It's...