LOTR Aragorn Story (suggestion)

[Teabag86]

I'm a fan of LOTR and was thinking that Skyrim could easily be adapted to follow Aragorn's story / quest with the existing landscape, plus a few minor additions. All the voice acting could be lifted straight from the movies.

 

The player would start as an Aragorn preset.

The quest outline would be simple.

- note received from Gandalf to meet him at The Inn of the Prancing Pony (Sleeping Giant)

- meet Hobbits, dialogue from the movies

- escape / kill Ring Wraiths

- head west to Weather Top

- distracting quest to search area / Hobbits are attacked / Frodo is injured / Battle wraiths

- Arwen appears, takes Frodo

- journey to Rivendell

- Meet Elrond / Fellowship

- Fellowship journey begins....

- etc, etc, etc

 

The beauty of this is that all the assets exist!

The main companions, weapons and armor are all available as mods.

As are a Solitude : Minas Tiroth retex and Rohirrim : Whiterun retex.

Weather Top, Mines of Moria, Helms Deep (for simplicity this could be Windhelm), Sarumans Tower are done.

Wraiths, Uruk Hai, Wargs are done.

The only thing missing is Rivendell.

 

Even the Skyrim map is similar to Middle Earth!

 

What it would need would be the disabling of the main and civil war quest lines.

Most towns would need to be renamed

Some jarls would need to be replaced with Theoden, Denethor.

Other ancillary NPCs (Galdriel, Elrond, etc) would need to be created.

This could be taken right through the 3 books/movies

The Black Gates could be on the far SE border but are never crossed (remember this is Aragorns story)

 

Survival / Needs mods would be a must to slow time to save racing through the quests.

 

Impossible? Big Job? Doable? Straight forward?

Any thoughts? :)

[Aiyen]

Impossible : No 

Big Job : Yes 

Doable : With a few people dedicated sure. 

Straight forward : Guess that depends on how much of skyrim you want to remove and how much of middle earth you want to include. 

 

That would be about my outlook on it. 

For all the similarities then I would not say that middle earth looks like skyrim in terms of geography. Also the whole gameworld is actually not that vast, hence you would need more then survival mods to actually slow down progression. 

[redirishlord]

Markarth the White City is a great Minas Tirith treatment on Dwemer architecture btw.

If you use copyrighted voice assets you may have trouble uploading / maintaining the mod on the Nexus & / or have to deal with a take down order from the rights holder.

It's an awesome idea, I'd love to see you pull that off, who doesn't love LOTR.

[Teabag86]

Ah, ok. The voice thing was a possible concern. I wasn't sure where the line was drawn since the mods are unpaid and for private use. That would put a dampener on things.

 

The mod idea makes sense considering all the assets are there. If the mod authors gave permission to use then it would be a case of working out the quest. This would be an overhaul and not suitable for the vanilla playthrough. Anyway I'll dream on a little more and maybe have a tinker with some questing.

 

You step into the road and if you don't keep your feet there is no telling where you might be swept off to....

:)

[redirishlord]

Don't give up, "all who wander are not lost".

[Neovalen]

There was a LOTR total conversion for Skyrim awhile back, but they got a cease and desist order.

[redirishlord]

No reason you couldn't do a STEP Pack. If you use the right EBD settings you can scale Bosmer to be hobbits (just don't call them that). It might be fun to do an almost but not quite (maybe a little tongue in cheek) conversion to non specified Midgard with a Band of Bosmer (oops, approaching another IP) against a necromancer lord. A pack would let you leverage existing assets (like the aforementioned Markarth the White City) and you could then create a quest mod to go with / be dependant on the pack.

Or have a brownie and watch a LOTR re-run (insomnia be damned I've got a plan).

[Teabag86]

There was a LOTR total conversion for Skyrim awhile back, but they got a cease and desist order.

I think you've answered my question. Shame really. Anyway I might follow Reds idea one day and just do my own playthrough and just re-watch the extended editions of the movies with the soundtrack on high rotation.... Thanks all.

 

Better download all the current LOTR mods now and keep them in archive. Just in case!