Because they're media products that have almost no knowledge of the source material outside of a few cinematic depictions of the War of the Ring. You end up with a fantasy product as generic as any other. The closest you will get to the scope and feel of LOTR in game form is Dwarf Fortress.
If I want to play LOTR games, experience everything there is to the fullest in the setting...
Gabriel Carter
Dominic Butler
>his cod-Wagnerian pomposity, his boys-own-adventure glorying in war, his small-minded and reactionary love for hierarchical status-quos, his belief in absolute morality that blurs moral and political complexity
lmfao, the current year is retarded. Tolkien doesn't understand political ambiguity? Here's Tolkien describing WW2, reacting to the common sentiment his books are an allegory for it:
>As for any inner meaning or 'message', it has in the intention of the author none. It is neither allegorical nor topical... The crucial chapter, "The Shadow of the Past', is one of the oldest parts of the tale. It was written long before the foreshadow of 1939 had yet become a threat of inevitable disaster, and from that point the story would have developed along essentially the same lines, if that disaster had been averted. Its sources are things long before in mind, or in some cases already written, and little or nothing in it was modified by the war that began in 1939 or its sequels.
>The real war does not resemble the legendary war in its process or its conclusion. If it had inspired or directed the development of the legend, then certainly the Ring would have been seized and used against Sauron; he would not have been annihilated but enslaved, and Barad-dyr would not have been destroyed but occupied. Saruman, failing to get possession of the Ring, would m the confusion and treacheries of the time have found in Mordor the missing links in his own researches into Ring-lore, and before long he would have made a Great Ring of his own with which to challenge the self-styled Ruler of Middle-earth. In that conflict both sides would have held hobbits in hatred and contempt: they would not long have survived even as slaves.
It's unambiguous not *because* our reality isn't.
Bentley Nguyen
>Harold Bloom
Good taste, in fact peculiarly rare taste for Yea Forums. Tell me your favourite authors, user.
Easton Diaz
Tell me this is bait plx
Luis Torres
Quite a few writers have said the same thing, Moorcock said Tolkien was ridiculous and old-fashioned for opposing industrialization of England because he looked out the window and saw a nice countryside so it means Tolkien was wrong. Gary Gygax fullblown despised Tolkien hardcore and got pretty pissed when LOTR was attributed to the creation of D&D.
Tyler Brooks
>Shadow Mordor games
Did you miss the point of OP:s thread?
Jaxon Jenkins
Those aren't quite the same thing unless you've got more detail to post, but yeah no surprises that Gygax is a fucktard. I despise Gygax wholesale for what he did to elves and dwarves, which absolutely was him badly ripping off Tolkein and mutating them into the joke archetypes they are today. Anytime someone says "god I hate Tolkeinian elves" and then posts a picture of a skinny, beardless male with knife-ears it makes my blood boil. If Gygax is annoying that people attribute his inspiration to Tolkein then a) he's a liar and b) the feeling is mutual.
Moorcock's the guy whose chaos symbolism was shamelessly ripped off by Games Workshop for Warhammer, as-in they didn't even change the symbols for Khorne and Tzeentch, wasn't he? Weird dude.
Henry Cruz
Not gonna lie: nothing. For example The Third Age is a straight up Second Fellowship OC team game, "Shadow of Mordor" is Batman in Fanfic Mordor (I still gripe about a missed opportunity of turning Turin's story into a game), the LEGO games are LEGO games and thus are parodic twists of the films... The MMO is a little closer since it plays with elements from the story but again its an MMO so its inherently flawed.
I guess the closest might be the old text adventure but I never finished it so I can't say for sure.
Jaxon White
>tried reading the first book
>had to stop because of how dull it was
Read other series like my life depended on it, but I just couldn't with this one. I guess I got overhyped with how "mythical" people make these series out to be
