Re: (TFT) Re: Huge underground caves

[Peter von Kleinsmid <pvk@oz.net>]

At 02:38 PM 4/5/06 -0700, you wrote:
>   I.C.E. Moria has huge holes, km on a side
> AND a short distance below are active flows of
> magma. ...

Sounds like someone wanted to fill in their map...

>   No doubt the writer of I.C.E. Moria would
> give me a pitying look for being such a geek
> and say "Its MAGIC".  Fair enough.  But I am
> still bothered by the logical inconsistencies
> which are ignored in the product.

Were there other I.C.E. products which didn't disappoint such hopes?

The exaggerated huge hall in Moria in the recent Jackson Fellowship of the 
Ring film struck me as being pointlessly enormous, pointlessly tall, pretty 
much all-pointless yet incredibly difficult or even impossible to build. 
That feeling of disbelief was then far surpassed when later, thousands of 
goblins appeared, and some of them were climbing down the columns from the 
ceiling. Pointless utterly unbelievable excess, to me. Apparently many 
people don't immediately realize how silly that looked...

Which isn't to say that Tolkien quite deserves to be held responsible to 
what the film and game makers presented as Moria.

PvK
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