av_nefardec
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Does anyone have any specific suggestions to help me make it better?
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*bows*
*extends hand*
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Yes, there are certain trees in game that do not allow passage of units, and if these are placed close enough together, it will create an impassable forest of trees.
This was done well in Praetorians I think.
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What do you guys think of this theme? (not for TLA, just consider it a theme by itself)
comments, suggestions, etc
Remember, it's MIDI music, so it's not supposed to sound 'real'. And this is only the second theme I've publicized of my very limited experience with MIDI
Also, remember that this is not a song, but just kind of a concept sketch for music.http://tla.wildfiregames.com/~waves/midi/themeidea.mid
PS - the repeated melody at the end is so you can hear how it sounds in different instruments.
This is not a completed song, this is just like a thumbnail sketch is to a finished painting, a quick thought I scribbled down, just one idea in a series of ideas needed before I find the right melody I want for the final song.
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WOW
The music has always been the highlight of these movies to me.
If the movie itself is anything like the music, I will be a happy person
Minas Tirith - what can I say? Brilliant? As I listen my clothes become transformed into mithril chain links and black cloaks, I feel the weight of a silver helm high on my head, and the white wings on the sides seem to take flight and lift my spirits. Excellent piece. I shall look forward to hearing it in its entirety. I'm going to have this one on loop for a while
Shelob's Lair - INGENIOUS - Brooding, and then so suddenly frantic, fearful, paranoid - so utterly urgent
The grey havens is going to be a very poignant scene I think :/
Hope and Memory - makes me want to spread my wings and fly away over Belegaer
And that Fiddle solo in A Storm is Coming!!! I want to hear the entire piece. It makes me wish I played the fiddle
I'm such a fan of stringy orchestral music, and this stuff is right up my alley.
I do not like Into the West at all.
It will be quite a drag if this is what the movie ends with. Folk Guitar music does not suit an epic legendarium. Save it for John Denver museums.
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It's right from Silmarillion, Of the Fifth Battle.
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At the Fifth Battle, Húrin slew seventy TROLLS, felling them about his feet in a circle, and with each kill he yelled "Aurë entuluva", which in Quenya means "Day shall come again!". He was finally taken at last, though in the process, the orcs that attempted to grasp him had their arms and other limbs hewed.
From the Silmarillion, Of the Fifth Battle.
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I also live in a very wooded area with some nice hiking, etc. However, there are no mountains where I live and so for me, at least, the views will always pale in comparison to those views with mountains in the backdrop :-/
(part of the reason why I'd like to move a bit farther northeast)
I live about 10-15 minutes from Six Flags "Worlds of Adventure", except that when I used to live in the town I currently live in, the park was privately owned and was very personable to the local population. For instance, some nights in the late Summer I was able to go and ride a roller coaster as many as five times in a row, nonstop and no one else would show up
Now it's all so commercialized and built up...
The area I live in is quite bland in my opinion. I mean, for me it's always going to have some sentimental value and beauty because I've lived in Ohio my entire life, but I will be moving more to the northeast hopefully in the near future. (closer to rest of the world!
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The encyclopedia of Arda defines Gothmog as follows:
Lieutenant to the Lord of the Nazgûl at the Battle of the Pelennor - he took command of the forces of Minas Morgul after the loss of his lord.Now it is true that he was the lieutenant of morgul, and that the forces of minas morgul were the forces predominantly involved in the Battle of the Pelennor fields. So does this imply that Gothmog was another of the Nazgûl?
I also found this in my research:
Gothmog was also the name of the lieutenant of Minas Morgul at the time of the WotR, and the leader of Sauron's forces in the Battle of the Pelennor Fields, after the death of the Witch-king. Gothmog may have been an Orc, or perhaps a Man (a BlackNumenorean??). In Robert Fosters Complete Guide to Middle-earth it is speculated that Gothmog was one of the Black Riders (though this would not be the case if Gothmog himself had been killed on the Pelennor).From http://www.thetolkienwiki.org/wiki.cgi?Gothmog
Does anyone here have Robert Foster's Complete Guide to Middle-earth?
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Length determines cost.
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Descartes
Rules for the Direction of the Mind
Discourse on the Method
Meditations on First Philosophy
Objections against the Meditations and Replies
The Geometry
They're all in one collection. I've never really taken the time to read them, so I'm making it up all at once.
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lol, I had no suitable axe props so I asked my brother if he'd rather the model have swords or axe-like halberds, and he wanted the halberds
@Enarwaen - it wasn't clear in the text (at least in TTT) how many horns Orthanc had, but it was definitely more than one.
He's going to redo it with four though, and add a "roof" or some type of platform to its pinnacle where perhaps the owner of the tower could imprison, say, a wizard
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Hildórien.
What were the mount and weapon of the following legendary figures in Tolkien's mythology?
Fingolfin
Aragorn (Right before Helm's Deep)
Eomer
Theoden
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Well some say that the scouring of the shire was an influence of Tolkien's own life experience on his work - he grew up in the small town of Sarehole in central England. The town was quaint and rustic but gradually had became overrun with industry, as had the world at that time.
So to skip the Scouring of the Shire is to skip over an important matter to the original author.
It's as if the writers of the movies are so arrogant as to believe that the professor didn't know how to write a good story.
I'm really disgusted with how the movies seem to only want to retain select parts and ideas in the books simply to make the most money. It's wholesale commercialism.
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Well the swords in the movies have short handles, so they look more like scimitars, which were explicitly orcish weapons.
t is, however, a variation on splint mail, where straps of metel are bound on top of leather. Unlike splint mail though, this 'banded mail' has the metal straps connecting horizontally, NOT vertically. This was invented halfway between chain mail and plate mail, and provided good protection against piercing attacks, such as arrows and spears, as well as adding extra protection against any slashing attacks, such as swords or axes.Right, but the fact is the particular "bands" of this armor are so big as to be definitely in violation of Tolkien's myriad descriptions of elvish armor, which I cited earlier.
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Hmm that's interesting - I've never heard such a thing.
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Bridges are actually a special feature of TLA.
There are three types of bridges:
Wooden
Stone
Fortified
Wooden is a simple wooden bridge with few hitpoints.
Stone is a stronger, wider bridge.
Fortified is a very strong stone bridge with towers on either bank that can be garrisoned.
In maps, there are set locations where bridges can be built. In random maps, these locations are random, and in scenarios, the designer can place them wherever he wants.
Anyways, to build a bridge, you have to find a suitable place. Suitable places are recognized by ruined foundations or some type of unfinished stone work (or woodwork, depending on the bridge) on either side of the bank. You select either object, opening up a bridge menu on the GUI, and then you place the beginning of the bridge on one bank on a set location as described above. This location will be visibly green indicating you can build the bridge from there. Then once you place the beginning of the bridge, another green location appears on the other bank at another set location. Once you click on this second location, the bridge scaffolding appears between the two locations and a bridge is built. Thus bridges can be built in any direction, but only in locations that are predetermined.
The reason locations are predetermined is that players could easily abuse bridges if they could built as many as they wanted or as
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Hmm, they seem like good numbers, but where did they get this information from? I'd rather go off the primary source, that is what Tolkien wrote himself.
And 2.05 m for ringwraiths is rather excessive I think. Why should they be any taller than Númenoreans, who were shorter or about as tall as elves?
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I read this the other day
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Three Sindarin words to know:
Roch - horse
Sîr - River
Brethil - Silver Birch
From Silmarillion/Assorted places.
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Wow, that's nice to see for a change. Hopefully I'll be even more pleasantly surprised by the 45 more minutes of footage
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I think they regard the Silmarillion as too much of a classical work of literature, and too much rooted in the professor's beloved linguistic endeavors to sell it out as hollywood fluff.
But check out:
Ancanar is an independent movie pretty much based on a combination of Tolkien's stories, Narn i hîn Húrin and Of Tuor and His Coming to Gondolin. Quite interesting how they simply change the names to sound similar (and mean similar things!), and how some names are just given to different characters. The costumes are very good, and some of the equipment was forged by Joe Piela, who is a purist Tolkien smith!
(his site: http://www.thelonelymountainforge.com)
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And modern superstring theory has 9 dimensions
String theory in the 70's had 26 dimensions!
Saruman, Where Are You?
in The Green Dragon
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*salutes christopher lee*