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<blockquote data-quote="Haltherrion" data-source="post: 5388703" data-attributes="member: 18253">Enjoyed the blog posts; thanks for bringing this up.&nbsp;I have to say, as a ref and a player, as much as I truly love LOTR, I'm not dying to play in a true LOTR world (as opposed to one inspired by Tolkien's works.)&nbsp;Why is that? Well, partly because as a ref, what I appreciate about Tolkien is how he created a cool world and frankly, world creation is what I love to do. I.e., I'd rather create my own world.&nbsp;As a player, I'm more open to it but where do you insert yourself into Tolkien's world? After the LOTR? A friend of ours tried that and I guess the reception from me and the rest of the group was tepid at best. &quot;What? all the elves have left? WHo is in charge of Lothlorien? The janitor? Is he the janitor king?&quot;&nbsp;You could do the war of the ring itself and that could be cool if handled well but certainly could be quite problemmatic in many ways. You could set it in the first age and that could be great but requires a lot of work on the ref's part.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Haltherrion, post: 5388703, member: 18253"] Enjoyed the blog posts; thanks for bringing this up. I have to say, as a ref and a player, as much as I truly love LOTR, I'm not dying to play in a true LOTR world (as opposed to one inspired by Tolkien's works.) Why is that? Well, partly because as a ref, what I appreciate about Tolkien is how he created a cool world and frankly, world creation is what I love to do. I.e., I'd rather create my own world. As a player, I'm more open to it but where do you insert yourself into Tolkien's world? After the LOTR? A friend of ours tried that and I guess the reception from me and the rest of the group was tepid at best. "What? all the elves have left? WHo is in charge of Lothlorien? The janitor? Is he the janitor king?" You could do the war of the ring itself and that could be cool if handled well but certainly could be quite problemmatic in many ways. You could set it in the first age and that could be great but requires a lot of work on the ref's part. [/QUOTE]

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