Thread: The Fellowship's Path Through Moria

Just revisiting this awesome thread and I thought I'd give it a bump.

Thanks very much Reddhawk.
I have seen bits of this as i have run by it, but you put it all together for me.
I shall forever see their path when I run those ways now.

Amazing series of posts here, Reddhawk. Truly, a great read. Very well done!

Wow. That was just awesome. Thank you so much for sharing it with us!

Reddhawk, you are my hero.

Wow, awesome read and a great thread (the leader of my kinship, Magnarr from three posts above mine, linked this on our kinship forums recently).

Well done, Reddhawk. The journey of both the Fellowship and the subsequent path taken by Gandalf and his quarry.

Kudos and Huzzah to you!

I have always enjoyed reading your posts Reddhawk and I do not know how I let this one slip by for so long. Extremely well done!

I just found this and had to appreciate how so much of the book has been put into the game, and also how much of this Reddhawk has brought into our minds also.

Redhawk you are utterly amazing (also somewhat scary). Thank you! (also much congratulations to Turbine for such faithfullness to the book)

Very well done, also shows the world team's fantastic focus on details in the game world.

This thread DESPERATELY needs a sticky. Bless you for all your hard work. What a gift to us!

Still needs a sticky, this is a wonderful connection between the game and the lore. Well done, Redhawk!

Namárië,
Geldarion

Awesome post!

I'm reading through Fellowship again and sort of doing the same type of thing mentally. The citation is way cool though!

Bumping because everyone should check out this post..... Anyone know if Reddhawk has more of these type of posts?

Bump

(And where is the sticky on this?)

Great topic friend! Cheers for share !

Great job! I agree....sticky this please.

Thankyou for this incredible walkthrough! An officer named Palinuris in our kinship, Friends of Frodo, linked this to our kin website as well, and I wouldn't have seen it otherwise. It brings a new excitement to me and I will see locations in Moria through new eyes.
Amazing work!

lotro ftw

Thank you for sharing this path with us, we all appreciate your hard work

Is The book of Mazarbul still left in Moria?
In that case Gimli must have dropped it, clumsy dwarf.

To all of you who have expressed your thanks, you are quite welcome and I offer you my sincerest thanks in return for your continued interest in this thread. Even after two years since its creation, I am still pleasantly surprised to see it getting further attention.

Originally Posted by BillyBeard

Is The book of Mazarbul still left in Moria?
In that case Gimli must have dropped it, clumsy dwarf.

No, if I remember correctly, the book only appears in session play during the quest "We Cannot Get Out". The book is found on Balin's tomb. As you can see from a few of the photos, during normal play there is no book to be found there.

Originally Posted by Rhino-Man

Bumping because everyone should check out this post..... Anyone know if Reddhawk has more of these type of posts?

Oldbadgerbrock has from time to time posted lore threads in this forum that are similar in concept to this one by Reddhawk. You can find some of them here:

http://forums.lotro.com/search.php?searchid=1324771

Fantastic thread. Kudos!

Back during the lead up to MoM, I wrote a post that took many of those same quotes and used them to describe the layout of Moria: things to do vs. things not to do. I wanted to see as accurate a portrayal of Moria from the books as possible. The various layouts I had seen before were only sporadically accurate. The movies gave a good portrayal of Moria's atmosphere, but lacked in the details of the layout.

Not so LOTRO. To the devs credit, they stuck VERY close to the books. The 1st thing I did when I entered Moria on my champion was to travel the Fellowship's path, or at least try to. I did it without looking at the in game map, and I was able to retrace almost the exact same route shown here. That was based on nothing but my memory from the books.

This thread shows, in a really cool way, just how much care Turbine took with Moria.

Thanks!

Change you name to Legen Dary, Officer of Awesomeness

This also shows us the amount of work the devs put in Moria and their lore-respect, I'd also love to see something like this done for the entire journey, especially before the mountains^^

Originally Posted by Arasilion

*slow applause*

*standing ovation*

I'm speachless.

Originally Posted by Reddhawk

To all of you who have expressed your thanks, you are quite welcome and I offer you my sincerest thanks in return for your continued interest in this thread. Even after two years since its creation, I am still pleasantly surprised to see it getting further attention.

No, if I remember correctly, the book only appears in session play during the quest "We Cannot Get Out". The book is found on Balin's tomb. As you can see from a few of the photos, during normal play there is no book to be found there.

No during the epic line Brogur sends you to the chamber of Mazarbul, where you recover the book amongst the rubble. When you return the book to Brogur he asks you to bring it to Bosi in the chamber of the crossroads. The session play is actually Bosi telling you the story he's been reading in the book you brought him a few epic book chapters ago.

Fantastic Reddhawk quite an achievement.

I have just started to read The Lord of The Rings and I can't wait to read all about the Mines of Moria; having played LOTRO before reading the LOTR it does seem familiar when I read a place name as I say to myself, 'I have been there.'

I would request a sticky just so people can enjoy the hard work you put in.

Thank you.

I will just write the same

Wow, its like reading the books with images! And kudos to the art team of LOTRO!

this is absolutely amazing

Originally Posted by Cronin_Stickyfingers

No during the epic line Brogur sends you to the chamber of Mazarbul, where you recover the book amongst the rubble. When you return the book to Brogur he asks you to bring it to Bosi in the chamber of the crossroads. The session play is actually Bosi telling you the story he's been reading in the book you brought him a few epic book chapters ago.

Thank you for the clarification. I did not recall the Book of Mazarbul making an appearance other than during the session play, but then again, it's been a few years since I last played through these quests.

At any rate, I must thank you all again once more for your continued interest in this thread. It is always a pleasant surprise to find it back at the top of the forums.

Excellent read!

bumpedybump for a great thread, awesome reading, and always great knowing how much of an effort it must have been to design all these pieces into that expansion.

I still remember fondly stumbling on the balrog outside of the mountain, as well as reading several lore-related threads, explaining several runes and oddities found throughout moria, like that globe below of dolven-view.

I wish the devs such a free hand for the next expansion, spending what must be an awesome amount of time (can't say wasting if its done so well) on all these small details.

A really lovely read

I hope people appreciate Turbine a little more after this thread.

Can't believe that I've missed this thread. Absolutely amazing! Thoroughly enjoyed reading this!

Excellent thread mate! Much <3 for the game's rendition of Moria!

Outstanding very well researched

Good work Redd, I don't remember seeing this thread before, I came upon it by way of yet another thread. I applaud you for taking the time to map out the path using screenshots, whereas I could only add explanatory links in this thread: http://forums.lotro.com/showthread.p...97#post3573897

As I indicated in that other thread, Turbine did a fine job in constructing Moria accurately.


Rip

My favorite moment in Moria was when I very first made it to the bridge of Khazad- Dum and thought to myself, "This is where it happened".

Originally Posted by Nymphonic

My favorite moment in Moria was when I very first made it to the bridge of Khazad- Dum and thought to myself, "This is where it happened".

This was definitely a great moment for me as well. The first thing that popped into my head though was, "Wow! Gandalf really did a number on this thing!".