spikerkid Posted January 9, 2007 Share Posted January 9, 2007 Cool, I didn't know this about mithril. Quit RuneScape :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darkluniux Posted January 9, 2007 Share Posted January 9, 2007 Cool! But i just wonder...i would preffer to learn latin or french than any elvish language, i mean, Who in the world will understand you? WEEEE MY 200 MESSAGE! UNICORN HORN! http://darkluniux.blogspot.comBehold my blog! Thou shalt visit it and rejoice! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djr94 Posted January 9, 2007 Share Posted January 9, 2007 Runescape takes many things from other games and movies :roll: Yah, there has been a few other topics related to this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mario_sunny Posted January 10, 2007 Share Posted January 10, 2007 the light mithril armour is directly from LOTR mithril as far as im aware isnt a idea made from LOTR mithril has been named from alot of places one is FF2 which has mithril Actually, nobody made it up. Mithril is a real life mineral. So is adamite. By popular demand, this signature is back- however I currently do not have a blog up at the moment and if I did I wouldn't update it. Sorry, the sig links to nowhere :( . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
------- Posted January 10, 2007 Share Posted January 10, 2007 Cool! But i just wonder...i would preffer to learn latin or french than any elvish language, i mean, Who in the world will understand you? WEEEE MY 200 MESSAGE! UNICORN HORN! Only you, and the friends who care to learn it. Which can be very, very useful. :twisted: Then again, you might have heard the stories about American Star Trek fans who go to other countries, can't find anyone who speaks English, but DO find people who speak Klingon...who's to say the same couldn't happen for Elvish? And for all those who are stating their opinion on where mithril and adamantite comes from, I'm only saying this once. Please first read the sources I provided on page 1, and then provide counter-sources to support your theory! It's no use stating a "fact" if you can't back it up! (I have learned that the hard way. :-w ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darksniper Posted January 10, 2007 Share Posted January 10, 2007 the light mithril armour is directly from LOTR ya you beat me to that one. Spam DEF: Any post, paragraph, or sentence that does not add to the value of the thread. Big_Stingman is the bomb! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
starsteller Posted January 11, 2007 Share Posted January 11, 2007 There is almost no such thing as a completely original idea. Whenever fantasy is involved, you are likley to have orcs/elves/skeletons/magic/wizards etc involved somewhere. To suggest that Tolkein was the first to think up these ideas is pretty laughable. He got a lot of inspiration from Norse/Celtic mythology, and a lot of the names that feature in his books come directly from those stories. FACT: Tolkein got the inspiration for LOTR in from Beowulf. Thank the world for spell checkers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Avatar Posted January 11, 2007 Share Posted January 11, 2007 ugh im truly sickened by the amount of topics comparing runescape to other games and movies. jagex tends to use alot of ideas from other things please get use to it. Previously known as Monkeybeast0. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sumpta Posted January 11, 2007 Share Posted January 11, 2007 Tolkien is considered the father of fantasy. Every single fantasy game/book/comic/film is inevitably related in some way to his works about Middle-Earth (incidentally, not just LOTR). Tolkien himself based his works on many Nordic legends and medieval stories. As a professor of Middle-English literature/language, he had a very thorough knowledge of all Germanic medieval literature and a good knowledge of the Germanic languages. (He even proof-read the Dutch translation of LOTR.) Tolkien consciously wanted to revive that fine tradition of medieval literature with his work, secretly hoping that one day, his work would be as the medieval stories are to us now. And boy, has he achieved his goal! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jemathonical Posted January 11, 2007 Share Posted January 11, 2007 The names, especially of the elf cities and kingdoms in Runescape seem like names right out of J. R. Tolkein's books, Isadorf, Crandor, to name a few. All the names in LOTR are elvish, and clearly you don't speak Sindarin or Quenya (the two main dialects of Elvish). In them, Crandor means wander/stray land (very awkard phrasing, very rough translation, as the full word doesn't translate properly. Isadorf doesn't translate at all, in any . The one language Viktor can't speak ^Sir Jem 05-The Bunny Drinking Blog?^ Click it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
------- Posted January 11, 2007 Share Posted January 11, 2007 Tolkien is considered the father of fantasy. Every single fantasy game/book/comic/film is inevitably related in some way to his works about Middle-Earth (incidentally, not just LOTR). Tolkien himself based his works on many Nordic legends and medieval stories. As a professor of Middle-English literature/language, he had a very thorough knowledge of all Germanic medieval literature and a good knowledge of the Germanic languages. (He even proof-read the Dutch translation of LOTR.) Tolkien consciously wanted to revive that fine tradition of medieval literature with his work, secretly hoping that one day, his work would be as the medieval stories are to us now. And boy, has he achieved his goal! So does that mean Six Degrees to Tolkien would be a valid game to play for the fantasy genre? :wink: (For those of you who don't get it, it's a reference to the game Six Degrees to Kevin Bacon. The premise of the game is you can name any movie or movie star, and in six steps, or under, you can connect it back to Kevin Bacon. Example: Eddie Murphy. Eddie Murphy was the voice of Donkey in Shrek. John Lithgow was the voice of Lord Farquaad in Shrek. John Lithgow was in Footloose. And guess who starred in Footloose? Kevin Bacon!) Seriously though, I would submit that CS Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia do not trace back to Tolkien. I don't remember who wrote which first, but I can't see anything in the Chronicles that go back to Middle-Earth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sumpta Posted January 11, 2007 Share Posted January 11, 2007 Seriously though, I would submit that CS Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia do not trace back to Tolkien. I don't remember who wrote which first, but I can't see anything in the Chronicles that go back to Middle-Earth. Actually, they really influenced each other. They were very good friends (no wonder) and moved in the same circles. I'd say they wrote at about the same time, but the genealogy of both The Chronicles as LOTR is rather complicated. I remember once seeing the two laid next to each other on some site that researched the amount of influence they had on each other. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meb Posted January 11, 2007 Share Posted January 11, 2007 Almost everything fantasy-ish past 1957 is influenced by Lord of the rings, ntohing special there. Retired 2146 overall - 136 combat - 6 skillcapes Plus I think the whole teenage girl thing will end soon (hopefully), because my girlfriend is absolutely in love with him(she is 18), and im beginning to feel threatened by his [Justin Bieber] dashing looks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
------- Posted January 11, 2007 Share Posted January 11, 2007 I did know that CS Lewis and Tolkien were tight. You know, now that you say that, I remember reading somewhere Lewis himself talking about the influence Tolkien had on his work. I'm not sure where that was...I'll have to go back through my resources and find it. Again, too, I know more about Lewis than Tolkien, so maybe there's somewhere Tolkien talks about Lewis' influence on him. It makes sense, though, that the Dynamic Duo would influence each other. Ok, consider my submission withdrawn. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dragon_lord Posted January 12, 2007 Share Posted January 12, 2007 You may not know this, but next to Cambridge, the home of Jagex towers, there is a small topwn called Barrows. :idea: Pretty much what Dragon said.Thread terminated.I guess that means I'm the thread Terminator? No Tip.Iters were harmed in the making of this post. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord_Gromit Posted January 12, 2007 Share Posted January 12, 2007 Lord_Gromit, are all the place-names in LOTR really Elvish? I would have thought at least the Dwarvish lands would have Dwarvish names. Well, they have names in both languages. Both Moria and Khazad-dum refer to the same place. But a lot more people will know Moria than Khazad-dum because it is Elvish, and so predominantly used. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
------- Posted January 12, 2007 Share Posted January 12, 2007 Good point. Primary language for the win! Well, Elvish being one of the primary languages. The other being the Language of Men (aka English). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mithril_Max Posted January 14, 2007 Share Posted January 14, 2007 i have definitley noticed this... ive seen referances and othe things on the map that reflect this and as i am reading LOTR right now... yeah its kinda hard not to notice Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MasterSamus Posted January 14, 2007 Share Posted January 14, 2007 they took kanderin from a medieval version of tristan and isolde kanderin was tristan's brother-in-law because he married another isolde Woot! Got total lvl 900 in f2p! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
malo2 Posted January 14, 2007 Share Posted January 14, 2007 How hard is it to spell Mithril? or Adamant? anyway, all games and books draw their ideas from either other games/books, or ancient lore. So the only original people in the world are the Norse, Romans, Greeks, ect.. Lastfm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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