Not every day that a game trailer makes me think of Gojira.
Who cares about spider tits, uruks are where the smash at.
considering the fact that the descendants of ungoliant are half umaiar and she seems to be in possession of some kind of ring of power in this game, it's not a big stretch of the imagination that she can take whatever form she pleases.
[QUOTE=J!NX;52494902]tbh Tigtone to me should be the official LOTR canon[/QUOTE]
I want to see the adventures of Tigtone and Tom Bombadil, going on quests that may or may not exist, for causes that may or may not matter
[QUOTE=Noob4life;52495361]tits are easier to animate than 8 legs[/QUOTE]
how many skyrim mods are there that add bouncing titties vs skyrim mods that add playable 8 legged creatures with completely new animations?
[QUOTE=DesumThePanda;52496256]how many skyrim mods are there that add bouncing titties vs skyrim mods that add playable 8 legged creatures with completely new animations?[/QUOTE]
A nexus tag worth.
I feel like they're not going with the scary "occasionally eats het children" shelob
I welcome them working on Shelob's character, since to be honest she didn't have a ton of it beyond "giant evil spider who guards the path to Mordor and got stabbed by a hobbit". Giving her shapeshifting powers and showing her openly defying Sauron makes it feel like she's like her mother Ungoliant, which is cool.
still safe to say this spider has puss puss
[QUOTE=Rufia;52495087]She looks really bland and dull.
Like, if you want to sexualise a giant spider at least give her a spider torso or even just extra limbs or something. Wanting to bang a giant spider should be at least a little weird.
[t]http://i.imgur.com/8HG1bqI.png[/t]
Something like this would have been awesome, why does it have to be so vanilla?[/QUOTE]
Chaos Witch Quelaag?
[IMG]https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/fe/d8/10/fed810a7873c1b713cc803d2efa4ad96.jpg[/IMG]
safe to say Monolith has thrown out any attempt at keeping the lore in tact. on the other hand, the game looks amazing if you ignore it completely throwing Tolkien's world into a wood chipper.
Tolkien probably wouldn't mind that much actually, he wanted people to build on his work like Arthurian legend if I recall correctly. His heirs just have a stick up their collective asses about maintaing his original vision.
Also her appearance may be enabled by her possesion of the new ring, which if anything like the One Ring can basically make you an (evil) god if you could tap its potential.
[QUOTE=Aleister;52494610]Does anyone else think that Talion's face looks a bit weird in this?[/QUOTE]
He looked just fine in the first game, they shouldn't have fucked with it
[QUOTE=ShazzyFreak0;52498514]safe to say Monolith has thrown out any attempt at keeping the lore in tact. on the other hand, the game looks amazing if you ignore it completely throwing Tolkien's world into a wood chipper.[/QUOTE]
Probably to have more freedom of what they can do.
I loved the outcry of people when the black people appeared.
[QUOTE=Saxon;52498573]Tolkien probably wouldn't mind that much actually, he wanted people to build on his work like Arthurian legend if I recall correctly. His heirs just have a stick up their collective asses about maintaing his original vision.
Also her appearance may be enabled by her possesion of the new ring, which if anything like the One Ring can basically make you an (evil) god if you could tap its potential.[/QUOTE]
The late Tolkien's opinions tended towards "I don't have any money so I will unfortunately have to sacrifice my artistic integrity a little bit so I have food to eat" when it came towards the rights of his works.
In Letter 210 one of the topics he brings up is the proposed Morton Grady Zimmerman adaptation script that he received (a film that never actually went through), and the tone he described as his response to Zimmerman was incredibly hostile because he felt Zimmerman's script did not truly comprehend some of his tonal messages. Tolkien, for instance, did not approve the glorification of war, likely because of his WWI experiences, and as such, Gandalf is written in the books to attempt to reconcile even diplomacy with Sauron and Saruman as peacefully as possible; in Peter Jackson's films, Gandalf is practically a war-monger. He definitely would not approve of a video game that took his universe and distilled out all of the things he loved about it, poetry, compassion, courage, hope, and made it just a sexualized war game, completely devoid of the messages that Tolkien sought to create in his works.
Additionally, even "trivial" concepts from the proposes Zimmerman script Tolkien made a huge fuss about, such as the hobbits having to "sign into" the Prancing Pony in Bree, since in Tolkien's mind, Bree had no politics or governmental structure and thus people could come and go as they please from the inn. Tolkien detested that the Nazgul in the proposed Zimmerman script screeched, actually quite similarly to the noise they make in the Peter Jackson films, because he believed they were "silently terrifying" rather than loud scary monsters. Don't even get him started on the Balrogs, to which he said of Zimmerman's Balrogs that screech similarly to Peter Jackson's, "Zimmerman may think he knows more about Balrogs than I do, but he cannot expect me to agree with him". For reference, this is "probably" the most accurate depiction of a Balrog, which was basically just a complete blackness in the shape of a man, that was on fire, and had a shadowy aura around him.
[img]http://i.imgur.com/p9qBExe.jpg[/img]
Basically, Tolkien was fine with creative works based on his universe if they had, you know, actually read the books *and* understood the type of world he was trying to create. Not an action packed testosterone pumped sex fueled spiderbang, but a recreation of Beowulf's Anglo-Saxon epic, mixed around with other cultural influences to concoct this world where war is always triumphed by hope and the courage of those, no matter their strength, to fend of evil, and even in that, with as little violence as possible. (I mean Frodo literally spares Saruman after the scouring of the Shire despite the literal buttload of atrocities he committed. Blood cannot beget peace and all that)
So he probably would love like, some of the fan games or whatever that stay true to the little idiosyncrasies of his lore and don't focus on violence and sex and war too much, but he definitely wouldn't approve of turning an eternally hungry spawn of Ungoliant into a sex object for a meaningless temptation sequence that I suppose Warner Brothers is trying to use as a parallel between it, the sexual temptation, and the temptation of the Ring of Power, but Tolkien would've thought this vulgar and unnecessary since it should be obvious to the audience that power seduces and corrupts, and that you don't need HD spider boobs to make your audience understand that.
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[QUOTE=Antimuffin;52498705]Probably to have more freedom of what they can do.
I loved the outcry of people when the black people appeared.[/QUOTE]
At least with black people in Osgiliath, or even Esgaroth in the Hobbit films, you have two locations super close to Harad and Rhun respectively. While Tolkien doesn't describe any black protagonists per se, there is no reason to assume that it wasn't possible that some men of Harad or Rhun migrated and intermingled with the men of Harandor and eventually made their way up to Osgiliath and lost touch of the culture of Deep Harad. It's even possible, based on Tolkien's later ideas about the revolutions of the Blue Wizards, that there were good Easterlings/Southrons that migrated to Gondor to seek refuge from Sauron's growing presences in the east and south.
That said, the idea that Shelob, whether we assume her some child of a Maia or not, could "transform" into other shapes, and the idea that she would transform into a half naked woman of all things and have formal discussion, is absolutely mindbogglingly stupid and was literally only done to give the mid-20s demographic titties, and probably to do some ~~metaphorical~~ parallels between temptation of power (of the Ring) and the temptation of sex, an unnecessary parallel for anyone even remotely familiar with the concept of the Rings of Power.
But dude, spider boobs.
Seems a bit odd they'd turn the big freaky spider specifically into an attractive woman, not like they couldn't have just introduced an entirely new character to tempt Talion with norks and magic rings.
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Ah fek, didn't notice last post was a week ago.
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