it's dumb to imply his staff would've even done anything if he had got it working. In the book Gandalf's so terrified of trolls he spends all night hiding from them until the sun comes up
he has no mana regen because his ring buff on. hence he's been running the same mana pool since the start of the adventure. pretty impressive if you ask me.
Maybe so the wraiths and their winged ponies had blue eyes? >at least 50% of this board has no understanding of the differences of having blue eyes vs shit coloured eyes, the same as nigs poos and chinks >It’s always depressing to take a moment to consider that this board isn’t auto- filtered to keep the untermensch from polluting it with their primitive and mongrel selves
MFW
You do realize two blue eyed people can produce a brown eyed child just by gene recombination?
But you would rather believe she took a BBC because you're deranged.
Maybe so the wraiths and their winged ponies had blue eyes?
>at least 50% of this board has no understanding of the differences of having blue eyes vs shit coloured eyes, the same as nigs poos and chinks >It’s always depressing to take a moment to consider that this board isn’t auto- filtered to keep the untermensch from polluting it with their primitive and mongrel selves
MFW # >You do realize two blue eyed people can produce a brown eyed child just by gene recombination?
Wrong
>dual class kensei wizard >kensei up level 12 >start leveling wizard >become a god at level 13 >kensei unarmed boni >kiai >weapon grandmastery >magic buffs
This guy fricks. I still play this game when I'm hammered and want some mindless, fun LotR action. I have most of the games. Third Age is fun. I forget the titles of the other ones, but I enjoy all of them.
Hmmm maybe I should look for torrents, this thread got me an itch to replay these.
5 months ago
Anonymous
There's a site where you can just get it for free. also checknout the Age of the Ring mod
5 months ago
Anonymous
Meant for
what game?
Battle for Middle Earth 2.
5 months ago
Anonymous
do you mean cs.rin or something else?
5 months ago
Anonymous
No it was a proper English site. I got it bookmarked, if this thread is still up by the time I get home I'll post it.
5 months ago
Anonymous
well I'd appreciate that
5 months ago
Anonymous
Here it is, https://t3aonline.net/download/
5 months ago
Anonymous
ah, we misunderstood each other. I meant the action game. still, thank you for following through.
5 months ago
Anonymous
Oh no for the action game you can just get a torrent probably since it doesn't have an online mode.
5 months ago
Anonymous
again, thanks for trying. cheers.
5 months ago
Anonymous
It’s on myabandonware, you don’t even need a torrent
BFME 1+2 with the expansion are also on there iirc
5 months ago
Anonymous
do you mean cs.rin or something else?
Not him but most (if not all) of these LotR games are abandonware by now. Even if you wanted to buy them they're not being sold anywhere for long years. That's why there are legal sources that distribute them and where you can download them for free - like public domain with films.
Here's RotK from probably the biggest such site: https://www.myabandonware.com/game/the-lord-of-the-rings-the-return-of-the-king-cbz Note how it comes with all necessary QoL features (widescreen fix, graphics wrapper, noCD exe) out of the box.
non-meme answer.
The idea of wizards casting spells like fireball were not even featured in fantasy until decades later.
Tolkins idea of a wizard was based on older sources that didn't have them fighting, but more as a support to leaders, ie merlin
I like when magic is subtle, mysterious, and not easily understood and is almost entirely a battle of wills. Fireballs and the like can stay in things like WoW where they belong.
>The idea of wizards casting spells like fireball were not even featured in fantasy until decades later.
'Naur an edraith ammen! Naur dan i ngaurhoth!' he cried.
There was a roar and a crackle, and the tree above him burst into a leaf and bloom of blinding flame. The fire leapt from tree-top to tree-top.
non-meme answer.
The idea of wizards casting spells like fireball were not even featured in fantasy until decades later.
Tolkins idea of a wizard was based on older sources that didn't have them fighting, but more as a support to leaders, ie merlin
Came here to post this. I like the Elric books, he never casts a single "spell", he just goes into mad drug-fueled psychedelic trances where he contacts an eldritch elemental being with his mind and then they do all the work. I really enjoy older classic fiction when wizardry and sorcery takes the form of rituals, curses, adn elaborate preparations more than this videogame slop that's gradually taken over the media.
>The idea of wizards casting spells like fireball were not even featured in fantasy until decades later.
'Naur an edraith ammen! Naur dan i ngaurhoth!' he cried.
There was a roar and a crackle, and the tree above him burst into a leaf and bloom of blinding flame. The fire leapt from tree-top to tree-top.
Starting a fire != throwing a fireball. Sad little samegay you tried there, too.
I like when magic is subtle, mysterious, and not easily understood and is almost entirely a battle of wills. Fireballs and the like can stay in things like WoW where they belong.
I like how the black company handles it (which would be easily adaptable). It's mostly just prepwork and they go in with huge buffs though there's the occasional flamboyant spell. also the whole "i said your real name now you have no powers" is pretty dumb
Non-meme answer: the Shire lies in the middle of what used to be the Kingdom of Arnor, and turns out the Kingdom of Arnor and its successor states were bled dry to such a ridiculous extent in a series of wars, plagues and harsh winters that the entire region of Eriador is almost entirely depopulated. Outside of the Shire and Buckland, which are populated by Hobbits, the only population centers left are Bree, populated by Men of various origins, Rivendell, populated by Elves, and a stretch of land alongside a river south of Rivendell, populated by the "Rangers", aka what little remains of the people of Arnor.
Outside of these areas, we only know of some tribesmen far to the north near the sea and other tribesmen far to the south and also near the sea. The closest Human kingdoms are Dunland and Rohan, both of which are pretty far away and rather depopulated themselves, too.
Not him but thanks for the actual answer, I appreciate such informative posts!
Because Middle Earth is a low magic setting. It's not fricking Forgotten Realms or Elder Scrolls with any somewhat magically gifted/studied person casting magic missile, fire balls and cure wounds. Gandalf, Saruman and the elves are wizards that can live forever, at a great cost, bring the dead back to life or raise a giant boulder up into the air, or like in this case, can force a giant winged creature to crash into the ground. Why? Because if magic was any more readily available it would trivialize the setting. Oh? We're stuck in the wilderness and run out of food? Let me just conjure some bread or shoot a flame at a bird 100ft in the sky. Oh? You tripped and twisted your ankle? I'll just cure the injury! That's not how this works. Wizards use their limited magic when they absolutely have to, not when it's convenient.
This. And by the way Tolkien valued knowledge above everything else, wizards and ancient races were powerful mostly for their knowledge of various aspect of life and culture, not for their magical powers
Gandalf could only use his divine powers on Sauron or others his equal, like the Balrog or Nazguls. The wizards were not permitted to use magic on lesser beings like orcs or urukhai. Think it is stated somewhere in the books
Means that he didn't have to. He always uses magic as a last resort, aside for some tricks made for amusement. Magic is very ambiguous in LotR, and I prefer it that way.
How could The Shire still live in peaceful time when their inhabitants are nothing more than children? Any human noble with 200 men could easily conquer the entire land and claim it for himself.
Don't give me crap like "but the kings around don't want to bc they're good people". It's unrealistic.
Hobo mode Saruman conquered it without his magic using a small band of half-goblin brigands and a few hobbit collaborators within like a month of the rangers leaving.
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Hobo mode Saruman conquered it without his magic using a small band of half-goblin brigands and a few hobbit collaborators within like a month of the rangers leaving.
apologies for being moronic, but it was far longer than a month.
>zoomer grows angry, frustrated, enraged with work of archetypal narrative fiction because it doesn't understand the embedded metaphors
Your generation was raised without culture, without the ability to think critically or recognize inherent meaning. I'm sorry. Our generations failed you, but there isn't anything that can be done at this point in time. Like a feral child raised in a cave or attic, it's possible you'll never attain the ability to think like an actual human being. For you, a life of rote memorization and concrete misery may be all you have to look forward to. It must be terrifying and maddening, seeing people react to things on an emotional level that simply isn't visible to you, when all you can see is the physical material on the screen.
Non-meme answer: the Shire lies in the middle of what used to be the Kingdom of Arnor, and turns out the Kingdom of Arnor and its successor states were bled dry to such a ridiculous extent in a series of wars, plagues and harsh winters that the entire region of Eriador is almost entirely depopulated. Outside of the Shire and Buckland, which are populated by Hobbits, the only population centers left are Bree, populated by Men of various origins, Rivendell, populated by Elves, and a stretch of land alongside a river south of Rivendell, populated by the "Rangers", aka what little remains of the people of Arnor.
Outside of these areas, we only know of some tribesmen far to the north near the sea and other tribesmen far to the south and also near the sea. The closest Human kingdoms are Dunland and Rohan, both of which are pretty far away and rather depopulated themselves, too.
Yeah, how scary hundreds of literal children who can't hurt no man might be lol.
Aratorn was an ordinary human and he could beat the shit out of hundreds of hobbits
Shut the frick up lol
That's a shitty flick right there, son. Learn to differentiate quality from this trash.
based. OP btfo and rekt and bootyblasted. fpbp OP seething in the replies
Low on mana brah
>Cant cast this spell right now
>Cant cast this spell right now
>Cant cast this spell right now
>Cant cast this spell right now
This is dumb
it's dumb to imply his staff would've even done anything if he had got it working. In the book Gandalf's so terrified of trolls he spends all night hiding from them until the sun comes up
wtf I hate the entire series now
Gandalf fricking sucks
i love these goofy ass hobbit movies
Kek and there are homosexuals out here pretending Jobdalf could beat Dumbledore in a fight.
I don't remember this shit at all what one of the movies is it from?
Battle of the five armies extended cut.
so much of a downgrade to the LOTR trilogy it hurts
god these movies are slop
he was out of mana
Why was his mana regen so low?
Because mana doesn’t regenerate in middle earth
His mp5 set was the grey one
He was playing Morrowind.
he has no mana regen because his ring buff on. hence he's been running the same mana pool since the start of the adventure. pretty impressive if you ask me.
His potion slots were taken up by fireworks.
>Use up all of his mana on a single flash of light that had the same effect as reflecting sunlight from a mirror on the enemy for less than a second
Yeah like you never used melee attacks in Skyrim with your mage build
Based battle mage
Used up all his mana casting that massive sunburst right before the charge.
>fear not, I, the great and powerful wizard Gandalf, shall defeat these foe with my most powerful spell
>behold! A somewhat bright light!
Cope. Glare can cause headaches, partial blindness and other inconveniences.
Sauron can cast a simple polarized lens spell to neutralize it.
He didn’t want to pay the microtransaction fee for the Ray Bans brand counter spell.
Maybe if you’re a fricking PUSSY
>OH NO! NOT THE INCONVENIENCES!
It’s magic innit
I mean it was kinda bright and orcs didn't have sunglasses. Pretty effective.
Maybe so the wraiths and their winged ponies had blue eyes?
>at least 50% of this board has no understanding of the differences of having blue eyes vs shit coloured eyes, the same as nigs poos and chinks
>It’s always depressing to take a moment to consider that this board isn’t auto- filtered to keep the untermensch from polluting it with their primitive and mongrel selves
MFW
You do realize two blue eyed people can produce a brown eyed child just by gene recombination?
But you would rather believe she took a BBC because you're deranged.
>
>at least 50% of this board has no understanding of the differences of having blue eyes vs shit coloured eyes, the same as nigs poos and chinks
>It’s always depressing to take a moment to consider that this board isn’t auto- filtered to keep the untermensch from polluting it with their primitive and mongrel selves
MFW #
>You do realize two blue eyed people can produce a brown eyed child just by gene recombination?
Wrong
>wrong
Wrong
Hazel isn't brown.
LMFAO COPE COPE COPE
>LMFAO COPE COPE COPE
Wrong
Wrong.
not even a 1st level spell!
a cantrip!
>being a 5e gay
3e actually
Gandalf is not a "Wizard" - He is a servant of the Secret Fire and bound by sets of rules, you ignorant cretin. Redditors should be thrown in jail.
>serves the secret fire
>openly tells the giant monster about it
That monster is literally one of like 5 beings on Middle-Earth that would know what the Secret Fire is.
then why did he mention it in the first place? you aren't very good at this.
If we're being pedantic a "wizard" just means an unusually wise person similar to drunkard meaning someone to gets drunk an unusual amount.
he was max level on spells and wanted to farm melee stats
You just made me realize how stupid I was leveling two handed during Skyrim's final areas just because I already leveled one handed.
Force sword + scrier’s gaze + disrupt destiny. Out of my way. Zealot plebs
Native isekai movies suck
End you life
oom
put down feast homosexual
He's clearly lost his staff in that screenshot, anon.
>dual class kensei wizard
>kensei up level 12
>start leveling wizard
>become a god at level 13
>kensei unarmed boni
>kiai
>weapon grandmastery
>magic buffs
>troony gate 2 rules
Pass.
>kensei
Just say Sword Saint man. I was a young weeb once too.
tbf kensei is the literal name of the class
no Sword Saint is
Its more fun, magic is homosexual and boring
>Glare can cause headaches, partial blindness and other inconveniences
his spellsword style was pretty cool in this game
This guy fricks. I still play this game when I'm hammered and want some mindless, fun LotR action. I have most of the games. Third Age is fun. I forget the titles of the other ones, but I enjoy all of them.
was this the game where you could evil route and curbstomp the shire and elves as sauron
no but you can pick which fellowship member you play for most levels and they level up
Title?
>he doesn't know
return of the king pc
It's on PC?! I played it on PS2.
They all got pc ports afaik.
Hmmm maybe I should look for torrents, this thread got me an itch to replay these.
There's a site where you can just get it for free. also checknout the Age of the Ring mod
Meant for
do you mean cs.rin or something else?
No it was a proper English site. I got it bookmarked, if this thread is still up by the time I get home I'll post it.
well I'd appreciate that
Here it is, https://t3aonline.net/download/
ah, we misunderstood each other. I meant the action game. still, thank you for following through.
Oh no for the action game you can just get a torrent probably since it doesn't have an online mode.
again, thanks for trying. cheers.
It’s on myabandonware, you don’t even need a torrent
BFME 1+2 with the expansion are also on there iirc
Not him but most (if not all) of these LotR games are abandonware by now. Even if you wanted to buy them they're not being sold anywhere for long years. That's why there are legal sources that distribute them and where you can download them for free - like public domain with films.
Here's RotK from probably the biggest such site: https://www.myabandonware.com/game/the-lord-of-the-rings-the-return-of-the-king-cbz Note how it comes with all necessary QoL features (widescreen fix, graphics wrapper, noCD exe) out of the box.
can also be found.
woah, thank you!
for that title, only return of the king got a pc release sadly. nevertheless looking up return of the king pc pulls that game up
Higher DPS with his magic sword.
Think about it. Casting slowly some measly fireballs as opposed to just swinging and decapitating poor orcs.
non-meme answer.
The idea of wizards casting spells like fireball were not even featured in fantasy until decades later.
Tolkins idea of a wizard was based on older sources that didn't have them fighting, but more as a support to leaders, ie merlin
Explain this then
>The idea of wizards casting spells like fireball were not even featured in fantasy until decades later.
'Naur an edraith ammen! Naur dan i ngaurhoth!' he cried.
There was a roar and a crackle, and the tree above him burst into a leaf and bloom of blinding flame. The fire leapt from tree-top to tree-top.
Nice
Litlet anon here
BTFO
Came here to post this. I like the Elric books, he never casts a single "spell", he just goes into mad drug-fueled psychedelic trances where he contacts an eldritch elemental being with his mind and then they do all the work. I really enjoy older classic fiction when wizardry and sorcery takes the form of rituals, curses, adn elaborate preparations more than this videogame slop that's gradually taken over the media.
Starting a fire != throwing a fireball. Sad little samegay you tried there, too.
I like when magic is subtle, mysterious, and not easily understood and is almost entirely a battle of wills. Fireballs and the like can stay in things like WoW where they belong.
I like how the black company handles it (which would be easily adaptable). It's mostly just prepwork and they go in with huge buffs though there's the occasional flamboyant spell. also the whole "i said your real name now you have no powers" is pretty dumb
> Starting to wish he had invested in STR and DEX.
He's summoning a level 15 +5 to willpower AoE aura
Big if true!
Not him but thanks for the actual answer, I appreciate such informative posts!
what game?
Battle for Middle Earth 2.
Because Middle Earth is a low magic setting. It's not fricking Forgotten Realms or Elder Scrolls with any somewhat magically gifted/studied person casting magic missile, fire balls and cure wounds. Gandalf, Saruman and the elves are wizards that can live forever, at a great cost, bring the dead back to life or raise a giant boulder up into the air, or like in this case, can force a giant winged creature to crash into the ground. Why? Because if magic was any more readily available it would trivialize the setting. Oh? We're stuck in the wilderness and run out of food? Let me just conjure some bread or shoot a flame at a bird 100ft in the sky. Oh? You tripped and twisted your ankle? I'll just cure the injury! That's not how this works. Wizards use their limited magic when they absolutely have to, not when it's convenient.
This. And by the way Tolkien valued knowledge above everything else, wizards and ancient races were powerful mostly for their knowledge of various aspect of life and culture, not for their magical powers
Magus build, even uses spellstrike.
At this point Gandalf would have been exhausted with basically no long rests since Minas Tirith to replenish his spells
Galadriel is a canon BBC prostitute bawd hoe
he doesn't have fireball moron
>keeper of the secret flame
>doesn't have fireball
boo!
he used one against worgs.
could be an invoked mirage meanwhile the real gandalf was smoking ganja in the back
you guys don't play wizards
Gandalf the fool
it isn't dnd you dumb Black
Have you played any of the Dungeons and Dragons CRPGs? I've played Icewind Dale and casting fireballs can hurt the members of your own party.
Or you could just, y'know, play real Dungeons & Dragons..
that's why you bait with summons or a thief, noob.
Gandalf could only use his divine powers on Sauron or others his equal, like the Balrog or Nazguls. The wizards were not permitted to use magic on lesser beings like orcs or urukhai. Think it is stated somewhere in the books
The witch kings wasn't his equal at all!
Means that he didn't have to. He always uses magic as a last resort, aside for some tricks made for amusement. Magic is very ambiguous in LotR, and I prefer it that way.
People forget he isn't even a "wizard", he's basically an angel.
>fireball
he was not formed by the modern understanding of a wizard
>Dress like an Int Spellslinger Wizard
>Is actually a Faith support-buff battlemage
What did Tolkein mean by this?
homie went for a sword of power + wisdom build
where is fun in that?
How could The Shire still live in peaceful time when their inhabitants are nothing more than children? Any human noble with 200 men could easily conquer the entire land and claim it for himself.
Don't give me crap like "but the kings around don't want to bc they're good people". It's unrealistic.
They grow food and vegetables
The rangers would frick anyone up if they tried
So you sayin it's like Taiwan
shire provides food for all the human lands, dickhead.
They grew the best pipe weed, nobody is gonna risk their smokes
Hobo mode Saruman conquered it without his magic using a small band of half-goblin brigands and a few hobbit collaborators within like a month of the rangers leaving.
Because the rangers went South with Elladan and Elrohir
apologies for being moronic, but it was far longer than a month.
and then got btfo when the fellowship hobbits came back and rallied the populace
>zoomer grows angry, frustrated, enraged with work of archetypal narrative fiction because it doesn't understand the embedded metaphors
Your generation was raised without culture, without the ability to think critically or recognize inherent meaning. I'm sorry. Our generations failed you, but there isn't anything that can be done at this point in time. Like a feral child raised in a cave or attic, it's possible you'll never attain the ability to think like an actual human being. For you, a life of rote memorization and concrete misery may be all you have to look forward to. It must be terrifying and maddening, seeing people react to things on an emotional level that simply isn't visible to you, when all you can see is the physical material on the screen.
Non-meme answer: the Shire lies in the middle of what used to be the Kingdom of Arnor, and turns out the Kingdom of Arnor and its successor states were bled dry to such a ridiculous extent in a series of wars, plagues and harsh winters that the entire region of Eriador is almost entirely depopulated. Outside of the Shire and Buckland, which are populated by Hobbits, the only population centers left are Bree, populated by Men of various origins, Rivendell, populated by Elves, and a stretch of land alongside a river south of Rivendell, populated by the "Rangers", aka what little remains of the people of Arnor.
Outside of these areas, we only know of some tribesmen far to the north near the sea and other tribesmen far to the south and also near the sea. The closest Human kingdoms are Dunland and Rohan, both of which are pretty far away and rather depopulated themselves, too.
Hobbits managed to defeat a giant army of Goblins all on their own, the frick are some 200 humans gonna do?
Yeah, how scary hundreds of literal children who can't hurt no man might be lol.
Aratorn was an ordinary human and he could beat the shit out of hundreds of hobbits
Kys ESL
people make threads asking "how come they don't make movies about greek mythology anymore" and then they whine how gandalf's big spell is making like
the kids are doomed
>knowing you could wipe an entire army from the earth, but instead decide to level the fight and use a sword for the thrill of it
based
fireballs only have 1d2 damage, moron.
Battlemage is OP. It's one of those classes that's never nerfed.
The balrog was immune to fire element but weak to sword element
If you're good at something never do it for free
Magic in LotR was much more subtle. Especially if used by nerfed Istari.
It's not subtle when Galadriel sings a dark Fortress to the ground.
It's just singing bro.