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Message: <blockquote data-quote="LuisCarlos17f" data-source="post: 7808085" data-attributes="member: 6802378">Isn't it fun? An official D&D LofR could happen still, in a few years (and I am not kidding). How? Easy, when Cubicle 7 loses the rights, Hasbro could get them. But this needs a lot of diplomatic skills in the negotiations because Tolkien's heirs don't want their work become a Warcraft clone. I don't blame them.  * The true essence of Tolkien's work is a mixture of beauty and sad nostalgy for the past times and the emotional war scars hurt in the soul for the rest of your life, if you lose something, it will never come back, and this is the opposite of D&D where new things can appear and healing is easy, only drinking a potion. And in the Middle-Earth there is no a mannequinism balance between good and evil. Always Ilúvatar, the pantocrator (supreme creator) god was more powerful than Melkor or Sauron. And there is no magic casted by the good guys, but "celestial" creatures (Gandalf wasn't an ordinary human, but more like an angel) and "Charisma", divine gifts to help the rest of community. Calling magician to a Tolkien's elf is for this an insult. To get a miracle to have to offer to God the same you ask, love and obedience.  * Other option could be to create as spin-off a "mash-up" of Middle-Earth. The original "time sphere" wouldn't change at all, but there is a "mirror universe" where both mythologies are mixed. But I am afraid this would be a true "jump the shark". * If you want to play a "The new shadow", the planned sequel, the threads I suggest are the moral corruption by the powerfuls (not only noble houses), the neophobia (fear for new things), the fight against nostalgy and sadness for the lost memories, the schisms (a false prophet creates a new religion, or a "Reform"), sharing/transmitting ideals your wisdom with the new generations (like the respect for the human dignity), and the wounds in the soul after the suffering.</blockquote>

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