r/dndmemes • u/Vegetable_Variety_11 • Jul 21 '23

Kender comes in as a close second... Comic

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u/Zaueski Jul 21 '23

Delete this.

Shadow of Mordor does not reflect LotR canon at all. Read the Silmarillion if you want to know what actually happened in the second age

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u/Tales_of_Earth Jul 21 '23 edited Jul 21 '23

I have not finished the Silmarillion and it’s been awhile since I last picked it up but isn’t a lot of it meant to be unreliable because it draws from the lore of the elves and other groups?

Edit: Have not*

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u/thomasp3864 Jul 26 '23

It’s by Tolkien himself. It’s up there with The Hobbit, Lord of the Rings and “The Adventures of Tom Bombadil” in terms of cannonicity.

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u/Tales_of_Earth Jul 26 '23

Yes but my point is that Tolkien wrote some inconsistencies because his characters believed different things. So if for example he is writing what the elves believed to be true, that isn’t necessarily what happened in his world.