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    A 'sequel' of LotR

    in The Green Dragon

    Posted

    The simple fact is, Tolkien was extremely influenced by old myths of the British Isles.

    It's pure ignorance to think Tolkien simply pulled Middle-earth out of his :). :)

    In fact, Tolkien was also quite influenced by Beowulf (cf Aragorn's coming to Meduseld), The Finnish Kalevala (I believe the story of Turin Turambar is influenced by this), and the Norse Eddas.

    Most legends are influenced by earlier legends and usually those based on quasi-historical interpretations or records of events long by-gone.

    Tolkien's mythos is likewise influenced by earlier legends, and in his desire to create an autochthonous mythology for the British Isles, (not celtic, but indigenous or germanic it seems to me) Tolkien pulled from all of these Northern mythological traditions.

    As for the king arthur legends, I think that there are definitely parallels. But to make the claim that they are parallel because they are connected directly over the claim that they are parallel because cultural traditions follow similar patterns, is a big assumption.

    The Edain

    in General TLA Discussion

    Posted

    Let it be known that we are going off of Tolkien's final versions of things, not previous things such as the house of Bëor in LT.

    I've never heard your interpretation and in my readings I don't recall feeling that the men of Bëor were elven by heritage or geneology, which is the main logic behind the divisions of our civilizations.

    Of course the edain of Bëor were heavily influenced in aspects of culture, including dress, technologies, mannerisms, probably figures of speech/idioms, no doubt many aspects of language, music, architecture, etc, etc. This doesn't mean that they need to be the same civilization, in fact this would be misleading and confusing for a non-purist who has not read LT.

    What we do with TLA is to make the game accessible to as many people as possible, to keep it purist based on concrete references, not vague theoretical interpretations.

    However, we're definitely interested in such vague theory and interpretations, and since the game will be easily moddable, you're welcome to explore your theories through that medium.

    Independant Civilizations

    in General TLA Discussion

    Posted

    You will not be able to begin a game as a minor civilization in random map games, but you will be able to begin, for instance, as the forces of Sauron, and ally yourself with them to the point where you will gain control of the mountain orcs.

    In scenarios, a designer can design the game so that you can play as the orcs of the misty and grey mountains.

    Also, may I ask why you have placed that red rune over our avatar? What file did you change when you made this image - did you paint over our eye or something?

    The great Dr. Sigmund Freud

    in Hall of Intellectuals

    Posted

    It has to do with our fears being figments of imagination I think

    In other words, the wise man used something as tangible and "real" as counting, to prove to his 'patient' that the ghost was not real.

    When this 'ghost' - better, 'figment' could not answer the question, the man experiencing this false fear, this imaginary, haunting thought, the man immediately saw that it was in fact imaginary, that it was not subject to reality, and thus could not really be a ghost, and he should have nothing to fear, because the fear is not based on something that is real.

    We're Melting

    in Hall of Intellectuals

    Posted

    If we look closely to the image, we can see that there is sun on the second photo of the third set. (there is shade)

    B) ??

    What does that have to do with hurricane damage though?

    I'm not talking of the house but of the beach, and the second picture was taken after the hurricane had already done its damage... not during the hurricane lol

  19. New Screenshots - 12-03-04

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    I believe white walls where for the higher classes

    (note - I actually study architecture and architectural history at university)

    The vast majority of Roman Houses would have been built with such "orange" bricks. Then white stucco was placed over the bricks to give them a bright, white facade. There were various other types of stone that could have been placed in patterns as an outer covering, though.

    Cement walls, called opus caementicium were used, and sometimes concrete walls were faced with irregular slabs of brick, called opus incertem. If they were faced with uniform stones, though it would be called "opus reticulatem".

    New Forum Skin

    in News

    Posted

    hehe I know CSS but the document is subtle and you must always know what you are editing when you try to edit the entire image tag.

    I'd rather just edit the specific multiquote class.

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