Cerillium wrote:Germanic Templars wrote:Sooo.... For the past few days, during free time at work (and not during lunch break or my 15 minute breaks) I have been busy reading up on The Lord of the Rings canon and everything to it. To the point that if I were to create a character, I could have the age they came from, the place, their back story, occupation, and reason on how they got here..... Sadly no real defined motive for them. Plus I have enough characters to run to the point it is ridiculous.
Park the characters you don't intend to use.
LOTR - please be very familiar with it if you intend to run things canon (rather than spoof), especially elves; diehard fans will cringe as badly as they do when encountering the bastardized "40K" (SPOOF) we wank here in PL.
The Starlight runs the Tolkien RP Group if you're interested in participating in Middle Earth RPs down the line. Their thread is quiet but I believe they're all still in touch with each other. It's worth visiting some time. Good people.
Other resources:
- Lord of the Rings Wiki
- Tolkien Gateway
- LOTR Project (The Interactive map is fantastic.)
Video History of Middle Earth: (Part 5 and 6 in this format are no longer offered although there are links to a version that omits the subtitle explanation)I can't praise these videos enough. Masterfully put together, 1-4 are fairly accurate although some interpretations are loose after that.
- History of Middle Earth part 1: the creation of Arda up to Dagor-nuin-Giliath
- History of Middle Earth part 2: the wakening of Men up to Nírnaeth Arnoediad
- History of Middle Earth part 3: the capturing of Hurin up to the third kinslaying
- History of Middle Earth part 4: the War of Wrath up to defeat of Morgoth
- History of Middle-earth 5: Lords of the fallen - no subtitles
- History of Middle-earth 6: The Witch-King of Angmar - no subtitles
- History of Middle Earth part 7: attack on Minas Ithil up to downfall of Sauron
- History of Middle Earth part 8: the story of Lady Galadriel
- History of Middle Earth part 9: the story of Elrond
- History of Middle Earth part 10: the story of the Dwarves
What is this stuff Ceril?