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Industrious81 said:
The children of Indis were considered just as great by many of the mightiest lords in Middle-Earth. Their lineage was certainly less tainted by the Oath of Feanor, and I mean Fingolfin...c'mon the guy called out a God. Melkor only accepted after knowing he would suffer a massive loss of face if he didn't answer the High King.

This doesn't even speak to the fact that none of Melkor's servants (Sauron, and the Balrogs included) would even attempt to stop him as he rode to Angband thinking he was Orome himself because of his rage and glory.

That my friends, is the epitome of being badass.
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Now news came to Hithlum that Dorthonion was lost and the sons of Finarfin overthrown, and that the sons of Fëanor were driven from their lands. Then Fingolfin beheld the utter ruin of the Noldor, and the defeat beyond redress of all their houses; and filled with wrath and despair he mounted upon Rochallor his great horse and rode forth alone, and none might restrain him.
He passed over Dor-nu-Fauglith like a wind amid the dust, and all that beheld his onset fled in amaze, thinking that Oromë himself was come: for a great madness of rage was upon him, so that his eyes shone like the eyes of the Valar.
Thus he came alone to Angband's gates, and he sounded his horn, and smote once more upon the brazen doors, and challenged Morgoth to come forth to single combat.

And Morgoth came.


That's probably up there as one of my favorite passages in the whole Legendarium, it's just such an epic moment! You know that it's on once Melkor comes out of Angband, and I always liked to picture that Melkor actually was the size of a tower, and that Fingolfin was fighting back against the legit ultimate evil in Ea against all odds. Such great imagery.
 
isaacssv558 said:
Will the mod start before or after the Return of the Noldor? i.e. Will we be able to play as Feanor? If so, will the Noldor begin with their original (Quenya) names? Also, can we prevent/alter the burning at Losgar and the crossing of the Helcaraxe?

Fun fact, apparently fingolfin can be translated as 'King Wise King', which I find amusing. (It's a sindarized version of Finwe Nolofinwe and finwe had been king so long his name can be translated as 'King'.)
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The start date is the moment that the host of Feanor lands in Losgar. Denethor still rules over a united Laegrim and Elu Thingol rules as undisputed high king of Eglador, including Brethil (after the veil goes up, he's only the King of Doriath and loses his de jure right over Brethil). Morgoth almost always destroys the Laegrim and sometimes even manages to destroy the havens if Elu gets distracted or Feanor is lethargic.

Noldor begin with their Quenyan names but are renamed when they land in middle earth so you can view both when you hover over the character names.

You cannot prevent the burning of this ships. There is no going back.
But you can change Feanor's fate if you make the right decisions.
 
CarverND said:
Now news came to Hithlum that Dorthonion was lost and the sons of Finarfin overthrown, and that the sons of Fëanor were driven from their lands. Then Fingolfin beheld the utter ruin of the Noldor, and the defeat beyond redress of all their houses; and filled with wrath and despair he mounted upon Rochallor his great horse and rode forth alone, and none might restrain him.
He passed over Dor-nu-Fauglith like a wind amid the dust, and all that beheld his onset fled in amaze, thinking that Oromë himself was come: for a great madness of rage was upon him, so that his eyes shone like the eyes of the Valar.
Thus he came alone to Angband's gates, and he sounded his horn, and smote once more upon the brazen doors, and challenged Morgoth to come forth to single combat.

And Morgoth came.


That's probably up there as one of my favorite passages in the whole Legendarium, it's just such an epic moment! You know that it's on once Melkor comes out of Angband, and I always liked to picture that Melkor actually was the size of a tower, and that Fingolfin was fighting back against the legit ultimate evil in Ea against all odds. Such great imagery.
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Agreed.
 
I'm curious, are you going to give Galadriel land, Or are you going to have her unlanded in her brother's court? sorry if you have answered this before, but sifting through 33 pages of information can, well, make anyone's brain into soup.
 
As far as most of us can tell, Porkenstein is more or less constantly working on the mod.

I believe it's just him though so it's slow going and there were major issues with crashes a few months ago that took some time to resolve.

Either way I'm sure we can appreciate the time and effort he has put in.
 
Validator was just updated for v3, so I'm cleaning up errors in the mod. tsf4 has recently been helping with the update as well. Afterwards I'll work on some more fixes and historical events. It might take a bit to integrate holy fury, although I'm not going to add the majority of the HF features until after the core elements are more complete. I would definitely like to add the new battle events, retooled to be more in line with the setting, though.

After things are working and there are a couple more historical events and important vanilla mechanics in, I'll open it to alpha testing. There will be numerous issues and holes, but it's still fun and there's a good chance that things will be stable.

The hope is that once an alpha is out, I can keep working on content while people give suggestions and make contributions of their own.
 
isaacssv558 said:
Fun fact, apparently fingolfin can be translated as 'King Wise King', which I find amusing. (It's a sindarized version of Finwe Nolofinwe and finwe had been king so long his name can be translated as 'King'.)
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That's actually an interesting touch that's noted in Shibboleth.:)

Fingolfin ain't so saintly, after all. Calling himself that was a deliberate provocation.

@Nikephoros II
 
It is still alive, and playable, just not release ready yet.
 
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