September 21, 2003, 23:28
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LOTR avatar question...
Why are our members all the bad guys? And GS + Spain good guys? Whats with the avatar anyway? Trip said it had to do wit whats happening on PTW right now...
Anyway Trip is the Eye.. hahaha I got that one.
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September 21, 2003, 23:35
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Roleplay decided to start representing themselves as the hopelessly outnumbered lands of Man from the LOTR series, you know after everyone abandons them and they get wiped out.
GoW decided to drive the point home by using the superior numbered and far better led avatars of Sauron the all powerful and his ingenius allies...........
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September 22, 2003, 02:10
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Uhh....you do know how it turns out...right? 
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September 22, 2003, 02:28
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Originally posted by GhengisFarb
Roleplay decided to start representing themselves as the hopelessly outnumbered lands of Man from the LOTR series, you know after everyone abandons them and they get wiped out.
GoW decided to drive the point home by using the superior numbered and far better led avatars of Sauron the all powerful and his ingenius allies...........
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You know, I kept wondering why I wasn't seeing any of the Hobbits or elves as avatars. I didn't even think that they might be using the avatars of only the men.
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September 22, 2003, 05:20
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Re: LOTR avatar question...
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Originally posted by Zero
Why are our members all the bad guys? And GS + Spain good guys? Whats with the avatar anyway? Trip said it had to do wit whats happening on PTW right now...
Anyway Trip is the Eye.. hahaha I got that one.
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Because like Sauron, you don't know yet that you are going to loose, together with the evil men of Harad (ND).
Ghengis is right that you have superior troops, but none of your troops can resist against the strength of faith, hope, bravery, loyalty and justice.  
I wonder, however, who of you is Sauron and who is Saruman.
Soldier Aidun Cian of the Royal Spanish Army
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September 22, 2003, 10:52
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Originally posted by BigFree
Uhh....you do know how it turns out...right?
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As far as GoW is concerned Roleplay is nothing more than Rohan. And they all die........... 
Why don't you rename Pamplona to Helm's Deep?
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September 22, 2003, 11:38
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Damn! What is Lego then?
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September 22, 2003, 11:53
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The LOTR avatars is a desperate public relations attempt by Roleplay to garner people's sympathy to their pathetic cause.
Frankly GoW doesn't mind being the "bad guys". We're just doing what everyone wanted to do in the first place but was afraid of doing 
Oh, and Aggie is Sauron, Panzer32 is Sauroman. And since Trip is the "eye" that means he's on our side too
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September 22, 2003, 12:43
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I don't think they expected GoW to willingly accept and, indeed, revel in being cast in the role of 'evil'.
I must admit, the GoW forum is truly a sight to behold these days. 
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September 22, 2003, 13:01
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Originally posted by Nuclear Master
Damn! What is Lego then?
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The land beyond the sundering sea... where Elves go to retire.
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September 22, 2003, 13:10
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Originally posted by Cort Haus
The land beyond the sundering sea... where Elves go to retire.
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So pretty soon we're going to have all the Legos with elf avatars. Vondrack can be Elrond. Who is going to be Arwen and Galadriel.
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September 22, 2003, 13:24
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Originally posted by Rhothaerill
So pretty soon we're going to have all the Legos with elf avatars. Vondrack can be Elrond. Who is going to be Arwen and Galadriel.
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September 22, 2003, 13:42
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Originally posted by BigFree
Uhh....you do know how it turns out...right?
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Yes we do, but then again we are using the "evil side" special edition. you this was the real version, but was too dark for the public so they made Tolkien change it. The part where sauron occupies moria and switches his palace there(to lower corruption in those stinking hobbit lands) is just amazing. Sad such great literature was altered for public consumption, much as they had King let the kid live in the shining(true), though in that case i'm glad they did make him change the ending.
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September 22, 2003, 13:54
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Originally posted by Cort Haus
The land beyond the sundering sea... where Elves go to retire.
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Crud, I was hoping to get the Lego (the Elves) on our side. Wait, they really didn't like those uppity man realms did they?
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September 22, 2003, 15:02
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OMG. Trip wants his "Ring" back. (aka Lux)
Watch out ppl. Trip is planning something and using GoW as a tool!
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September 22, 2003, 16:20
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Originally posted by Cort Haus
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Originally posted by Nuclear Master
Damn! What is Lego then?
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The land beyond the sundering sea... where Elves go to retire.
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Yes we're those lands, but because we control them we are not the elves, but the Valar. 
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September 22, 2003, 16:49
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Originally posted by Zero
OMG. Trip wants his "Ring" back. (aka Lux)
Watch out ppl. Trip is planning something and using GoW as a tool!
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Actually we're using him to peek at the other forums
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September 22, 2003, 17:51
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Originally posted by Zero
OMG. Trip wants his "Ring" back. (aka Lux)
Watch out ppl. Trip is planning something and using GoW as a tool!
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Your just now figuring out that GoW has been the puppet of Lux since the beginning? Come on, you don't actually think the barbarian warmongers could have stopped their infighting long enough to organize a lux (sneak) invasion of Roleplay do you?
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September 22, 2003, 17:53
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Originally posted by Nimitz
The land beyond the sundering sea... where Elves go to retire.
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Yes we're those lands, but because we control them we are not the elves, but the Valar. [/QUOTE]
Does that mean the Vox are the Elves since they left the lands of man to go to the lands of the Valar?
Or are they the Dwarves, they certainly seem to have settled in mountainous caverns........
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September 22, 2003, 20:28
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And this all makes Ming and MarkG... ?
More to the immediate point, it seems GS is Gondor, which is fine by me.
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September 22, 2003, 20:57
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Originally posted by Theseus
More to the immediate point, it seems GS is Gondor, which is fine by me.
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Naw, you're just a bunch of useless Hobbits that stuck their noses into Ring business when you didn't know better. I hear roasted Hobbit makes good eatin'.
 Where's Duddha when you need him.................
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September 22, 2003, 22:45
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For the record, the LOTR avatars were my idea. I'm also the one who e-mailed around most of the ones being used by RP and GS.
That GoW decided to pick up the idea and use LOTR-themed avatars themselves is of their own volition, though I certainly didn't discourage them from playing along with my idea.
Actually, the LOTR avatars are as old as the war itself, we just weren't able to switch to them for the first 2 weeks while avatars were down.
As for what Lego is, didn't get that far, really. The idea was really just that RP was Rohan all bottled up inside Helm's Deep desperately trying to cling to its survival... GoW and ND were hordes of evil orcs. GS could be Gondor if they wanted and Lego, if they raise a finger, could I suppose be other allies (Elves, Dwarves, the Lake Men, etc.)... if they work against us, they could be the Eastrons or the Corsairs of Umbar who were each duped by Sauron into serving him
It wasn't really supposed to be much more complicated than RP being Rohan... the rest was added later.
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September 23, 2003, 00:11
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Just for the record the GoW LoTR avatars were UnOrthO's idea, and he made a few of them too.
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September 23, 2003, 03:54
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Re: LOTR avatar question...
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Originally posted by Zero
Why are our members all the bad guys? And GS + Spain good guys?
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Because there seems to be general agreement between GoW and RP (at least) that we're the "good" guys and you are the "bad" guys.
You guys like being the badass evil barbarians who burn and pillage the countryside. Our guys like being the holy warriors desperately attempting to prevent it.
Both sides seem rather happy with this depiction, so why not just go with it? 
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September 23, 2003, 03:58
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Since I had to get in on the action, I got myself a new avatar.
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September 23, 2003, 04:29
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Since I had to get in on the action, I got myself a new avatar.
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Ummm... have the first exiled Spaniard landed on Legos? Since that's currently the only way you could become an elf...
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September 23, 2003, 04:42
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OH.
Right. That would be a my bad.
*goes back searching for a new avatar*
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September 23, 2003, 05:14
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And this all makes Ming and MarkG... ?
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Iluvatar and ...
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September 23, 2003, 10:32
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yay just in time for avatars to be shut off!
edit: hmm... well they were off when I first loaded this page 
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September 23, 2003, 15:49
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They tend to go off and on periodically.
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