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The Lord of the Rings Online Brings Players To the Swamp With Its Latest Update - MMORPG.com
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The Lord of the Rings Online Brings Players To the Swamp With Its Latest Update - MMORPG.com
The Lord of the Rings Online has many famous bogs, from the Midgewater to the Dead Marshes. However, with the upcoming 24.2 Update currently on the Bullroarer test server, players can venture into the Swamp for a new adventure in the Vales of Anduin.
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To be fair, it's not Radagast from the books either as he didn't have enough of a part to determine a personality :P Edit: if anything, The Hobbit portrays in a more accurate ways as one of the few things we know about him is that he, for all intents and purposes, gave up his wizarding ways to indulge his obsession with plants and animals and LOTRO has him as a pretty typical wizard type (Though they don't counteract the lore as such as nothing is really known about him as a person (most of what we know is from Saruman's insults))
I would posit that if you are playing to "get to end game" you are in the wrong game.
Godfred's Tomb Trailer: https://youtu.be/-nsXGddj_4w
Original Skyrim: https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/109547
Serph toze kindly has started a walk-through. https://youtu.be/UIelCK-lldo
What @Sovrath said. This game is about the journey and the story. If you are playing it just to level through and get to max....this one is not for you.
This game is not for you. This game is about the journey and exploration of middle earth, not toxic end game raiding for phat lewwtttzzzz.
The old location are actually the most fun. Wait for Rohan etc, that's boring. Grass everywhere. I personally feel like they are "lvl design lazy" after Rise of Isengard expansion. All seems the same, but I wasnt in Mordor yet. The old part of game does feel much more epic like.
All of you know them probably inside out.
Cannot agree with this comment more.
I don't counter your interpretation of Radagast, just the films portrayal. But then the Hobbit films were a farce compared to Lord of the Rings, Jackson really let us down.
Maiar do need physical bodies, that's why Gandalf had to be given a new one when he died. That's why Sauron (who was also a Maiar) only survived his death by having so much of his spirit bound into the One ring. He could not take on corporal form after he died and after the ring was destroyed so was his spirit (maybe) .
I am leaving out various complexities such as that Maiar can exist without bodies when originally sent to Middle earth, at least if that was the Ainur's intention. After that it is a matter of degree, if they stayed in a form for too long they become bound to them. So when that body dies it is back to the Ainur you go. It may be that some Maiar manage to avoid being wholly bound to form like Tom Bombadil. It seems that the more well known and the more your form does, the more likely you are to become bound to it.
As to your last paragraph, I am not sure the Aniur knew what there favoured Maiar would do, they were not omnipotent and sending them was a risk. But they had to do something, and mysterious powerful characters always make for a good story.