![]() ![]() It’s exploring the areas where there is more ambiguity. It has that focus on, perhaps, the darker side of Tolkien’s works. We’re as faithful as we can and as true as we can to everything we love and feel is in the spirit of Middle-Earth, but it’s certainly our version of a lot of those elements. If you see almost any film or TV show or other work coming from a canon book or other original property, that’s often the best way to approach that. We were taking the intention, the spirit, and the themes of the books, but adapting them to fit within a slightly different timeline and story. In the books he’s a spirit of vengeance, and we wanted to tie that to the narratives of the Ringwraiths – someone whose story of pursuing revenge and falling and becoming a Nazgul resonated with Talion. There are things we do relative to the timelines in the books, for example. I'd go to the books, but a) I wouldn't even know where to begin looking for answers to questions like that and b) I don't currently have access to any of my Tolkien books, they being at my parents' house.“People should think of it as an adaptation. Things like the Black Gate being built by Gondorians or certain areas of Mordor being inhabited by, more or less, deserters and the descendants of slaves. ![]() I was just curious about a lot of other things in the game because I'd never heard much about the history of Mordor before. These tips should help newcomers to the Middle-Earth series find their footing amongst the Orcs and Trolls of Mordor. The story itself isn't something I'm not taking as canon. "Obviously, you can't infiltrate Mordor and use Sauron's Orcs against him, but what if you could?" sorta thing. Basically, I just take SoM as an interesting "what if?" sort of story. Yeah, I know a lot of people have problems with the fact that SoM is basically completely opposite from the central conceit of "You can't use the Enemy's power against him" in that one of the first lines of the game after the prologue is literally "We must use the power of the Enemy against him." The stuff about resurrection, though, I didn't know wouldn't work. For those of you who were wondering whether Shadow of Mordor fits into Tolkiens canon, the answer is a definitive no. Just that the Tolkien-related stuff is considerably off the mark. The Heroes stooping to use the tactics of the Enemy to defeat the Enemy is exactly the strategy rejected in the LotR plot.Īll of that being said, I have heard nothing but good things about it as a game (for the type of action game that it is). That's precisely the level of control, although on a smaller scale, that makes Sauron capital E Evil. While certain elements of the story may be. Revenge stories where the "hero" is using powers to dominate the minds of other rational beings (I've heard that a major mechanic allows Talion to control individual enemies directly). Its not a story Tolkien wrote, outlined, or ever considered (as far as we know). The gate was actually built by Gondor after Sauron's previous defeat repurposed by Gondor for their guard on Mordor in the Third Age, it's just that the strength of Gondor waned in the intervening 3000-ish years and it was eventually abandoned and then retaken by Sauron's forces. The guard kept on the Black Gate by Gondor had fallen apart well before the time when the game is set. Celebrimbor is unlikely to have stuck around as a houseless spirit after his own death way back in the middle of the Second Age anyway. The metaphysics of Tolkien's world would not allow the central conceit of the game: once Talion is dead Celebrimbor would not be able to bring him back in the way shown. I can say some things about incompatibilities with Tolkien otherwise from previous discussions in the various Tolkien subreddits.Ĭelebrimbor did not aid Sauron in the crafting of the One Ring and never used it against him - until the defeat of Sauron at the end of the Second Age nobody but Sauron himself held or used it. I have not played the game, so don't know about things like the geography of where the game takes place (although I have heard some rumblings about how the portions of Mordor that players see are incorrectly depicted).
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