I can't help but feel I'm in a lords of the rings films when I play this game, Bethesta. Should get the license, it's all in there, orks, trolls, magic, dwarves etc.
It would be fantastic, we already have the feel and vibe.

Thoughts?

If I'm correct LOTR was the inspiration for these games

No, don't much care for gay elves and hobbits.

Meh. Rather they focus on their own amazing series then dip into that stuff.

First of all you are talking nonsense. Second of all: http://www.warinthenorth.com/index.php?tp=1&template=witn_gate

This

It seems like all western fantasy rips off everything in Tolkien anyway with just a name change. Since all the fantasy I've read is based off Tolkien, and I've read Tolkien, I just find anything by Tolkien fairly boring and generic at this point. Not Tolkien's fault, but I'm sick of it.

So no.

Ummm, War in the North isn't getting very good reviews and second, that's a hack and slash RPG. I agree completely with the OP, an LOTR game in with a very similar play style like Elder Scrolls is my dream game from Beth. Don't get me wrong i am loving Skyrim and I can't pull myself away from it, I'm just a huge LOTR fan as well.

I basically consider this game the true LOTR video game anyway.. everything screams LotR about this art direction.

LOLno.... the movies didnt even come out till 9 years after...

Check out a WIP Oblivion mod:http://www.tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=29214

LOL not their IP

I don't even like the series but the books were around waaaay before TES was even conceived. It's possible they got some ideas for their lore from LoTR but to be perfectly honest, TES lore is more original by miles.

No way, absolutely not. Leave Bethesda to what they're good at: making large scale random worlds to explore, with no burden on the player as to which choices must be followed. A Lord of the Rings game would have to be linear if they were to do it right.

Plus, as a general rule, movies/books made into videogames are hard to pull off. Those LotR books and movies were great, but the one LotR videogame I tried a few years back now sits on my shelf collecting dust. I think I tried playing it for a half hour, it was that bad! I'd hate to see Bethesda make a lemon of a videogame like this.

LOTR was the inspiration for, like, nearly everything... not just Elder Scrolls.



Oh... my... god.

LOTR IS A TRILOGY OF BOOKS, NOT MOVIES.

You really don't know that the stupid movies were based off of J. R. R. Tolkein's books, written during World Wars I and II??? Ugh...

Holy crap i hop you are trolling. I do not remember exact dates/years but someone correct me if im wrong the LOTR books were from late 1930's- the 1940's? I remember reading about some of the Stuff was made by Tolkien was heavily influenced by WW2

Are you JOKING?

Cause the movies are based off of novels from the 1960s, which in turn nearly all of damn medieval fantasy is based on. Books is what I'm saying. Everything is based on books, not the movies made 40 years later.

Whiterun reminds of something within LOTR... :spotted owl:

teehee. Bethesta....

To be fair all Tolkien did in turn was take Norse and Celtic myths, throw them in with some Quasi-Abrahamic allegories and put his own spin on it all.

Actually Tolkein served in the British army during WWI, not WWII.

But both wars had a profound influence on Tolkein's worldview and on his mythology. For instance, his world is one that is under the constant threat of war, and when wars breakout they result in permanent, irrevocable, and profound changes to the world. In real life.

WWI and II resulted in the fall of empires that had lasted for centuries and the creation of completely new nations (goodbye Holy Roman Empire and Prussia, hello the Bundesrepublik and the Volksrepublik). Likewise, the end of the war with Sauron spelled the end of the Third Age, and almost all the elves left Middle Earth.



I more or less agree with you. However, at least a lot of the results of this synthesis were completely novel and completely Tolkein's, and fantasy archetypes can be directly linked to Tolkein's work. However, before Tolkein's work, there were many conceptions for what "elves" were: divine or semi-divine beings, dangerous tricksters, something akin to fairys or pixies, etc. Tolkein hammered out the details of what "elves" were in his universe, and elves in most fantasy after him were quite similar to his.

And don't forget the hobbits--they were completely his creation with little precedent. They became the halflings of many fantasy settings.

Sort of. He wanted a mythic past for England like the Middle East, the Far East, and other parts of the world had, so yeah, he took a lot of historical elements. Like the Nordic concept of elves as tall, man-like beings. Prior to that whenever someone said 'elf' all anyone thought of was short little Christmas elves.

But he invented things like Orcs, Hobbits, etc. Which everyone preceeded to shamelessly steal. When called on it, they changed to name to things like "Hafling". :rolleyes: Tolkien's concept of the dwarves as miners and stonecutters who loved to drink, of elves that are unnaturally long-lived and beautiful, etc. all have become stereotypes in fantasy, as few people bother to come up with their own races, just re-skinning Tolkien's races and calling it a day.

So that crap gets old.

No, the movies are not based off books made in the 1960s. Firstly, it was three volumes, not three books- each volume having two books, and secondly...they were written from 1937 to 1949

Way to get pedantic and quote wikipedia. I'm off by about five years, because yeah, they were written in the 40's but only published in the mid-1950s. And excuse me if I insist on referring to anything published for the first time in one binding as a single book. :meh: Forgive me for not rushing off to wikipedia to make sure I had the exact years to spout off.

So in other words, you're wrong.