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Post by Willy Wort on Sept 28, 2018 20:46:46 GMT -5
My understanding is that unlike Gygax, Arneson was a big fan of The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, does anyone have any information about that?
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Post by aldarron on Oct 1, 2018 7:37:48 GMT -5
Well not exactly. He was a fan, as were all the Twin Cities gamers, but Arenson liked pulp more. When he originally dreamed up Blackmoor he was, according to him, reading Conan and watching horror movies (see here) There's also influence from the first few Gor books and probably from Dune. |
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Post by El Borak on Oct 1, 2018 8:14:43 GMT -5
I think the real question is what are the things in Blackmoor that show the LotR influence?
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Post by aldarron on Oct 1, 2018 13:01:47 GMT -5
<shrug> There's hobbits and human sized elves. That's probably about it.
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Post by secretsofblackmoor on Oct 5, 2018 20:03:57 GMT -5
Perhaps it's that ancient inscription: One Egg to rule them all, and in the LARP-ness bind them.  |
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Post by hengest on Oct 23, 2019 18:29:40 GMT -5
I don't know Blackmoor (although I think I downloaded it a few years back), but to me the very idea of the dungeon, OD&D-style, now the megadungeon, is straight from Moria.
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Post by The Perilous Dreamer on Nov 5, 2019 3:09:23 GMT -5
I don't know Blackmoor (although I think I downloaded it a few years back), but to me the very idea of the dungeon, OD&D-style, now the megadungeon, is straight from Moria. Yeah, I would have liked to explore Moria! |
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Post by hengest on Sept 30, 2021 18:10:25 GMT -5
I don't know Blackmoor (although I think I downloaded it a few years back), but to me the very idea of the dungeon, OD&D-style, now the megadungeon, is straight from Moria. Yeah, I would have liked to explore Moria! Very little happens in Moria (mostly walking through areas the characters can't see). There is a fight in a crowded room and then a bridge collapses. But it is to my mind the most memorable and breathtaking thing in all modern literature. There was never anything like Moria in anything else that I read. It is the height of true mystery, not a puzzle to be solved, but skating over the threatening but enticing surface of the true Unknown. |
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