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Game info:
A third person adventure game of course, featuring Tom Bombadil. All his adventures will take place in the old forest, because as some of you may know he can't leave the bounderies he has set up for himself. He will be able to do the following.
- Walk
- Skip
- Sing
- Jump
- Magic
He will also be able to jump like in platformers. You would use jump to pass obstacles like, fallen trees, stones in the river etc. Magic is singing too. But magic is more like teleportation/buffs and healing. While singing is used more to drive away beasts and wraiths.
Characters
Tom Bombadil:
Tom Bombadil is a spry fellow, with a quick, playful wit. He speaks in a rhyming whimsical way: "Hey dol! merry dol! ring a dong dillo!/ Ring a dong! hop along! fal lal the willow! Tom Bom, jolly Tom, Tom Bombadillo!" He has a jolly, carefree attitude, and very little seems to concern him. He certainly does not seem to share the same concerns as everybody else about the One Ring, even though he seems to know at least as much as the hobbits about its connections and possible consequences. Indeed, this aspect of his personality seems quite perplexing: the discussions of those at the council of Elrond at Rivendell, and especially those of Gandalf, seem to indicate that Bombadil would not be immune to the actions of a rejuvenated Sauron; however, he seems to be wholly unconcerned with this fact and immune to the power of the Ring. In fact, the closest thing to an adversary Bombadil has, in the loosest sense of that word, is possibly Old Man Willow, who occupies and holds dominion over the trees in miles of Tom's "country"; although Bombadil does seem to demonstrate at least some control over him.
Tom Bombadil's origins in the cosmology of Middle-earth were left vague by Tolkien. He calls himself the "Eldest" and the "Master". He claims to remember "the first raindrop and the first acorn", and "knew the dark under the stars when it was fearless — before the Dark Lord came from Outside." He does not neatly fit into the categories of beings Tolkien created. Speculative ideas about his true nature range from one of the Ainur, angelic beings (who came after the dark lord and shaped the earth), or God, who is called Eru Ilúvatar and "the One" in Tolkien's legendarium (the latter in The Lord of the Rings). This is reinforced when Frodo asks Goldberry just who Tom Bombadil is, and she responds by simply saying "He is." [1]
At the Council of Elrond, Tom Bombadil is referred to by Galdor as being unable to deal with a siege by Sauron "unless such power is in the earth itself", implying that the character is a manifestation of Middle-earth's inherent properties. This connection explains Bombadil's seeming obliviousness to the transient concerns of mortals, as evidenced in Gandalf's concern that Tom would not understand the importance of the ring, and hence lose it, if it were entrusted to him. The idea that Tom's songs are always "stronger", as he proclaims in his rhyme, as well as his title of Master, further suggest Bombadil is the warden or avatar of the nearly invincible aspects of the planet itself.
Goldberry:
Goldberry also known as the "River-woman's daughter," she is the wife of Tom Bombadil.
Although her origins are uncertain, it has been speculated that she is not a mortal human being, but rather a spirit of the river Withywindle in the Old Forest of Tolkien's Middle-earth, similar to the many named river spirits of traditional English folklore such as Peg Powler of the River Tees, although noticeably gentler. Otherwise, she and Bombadil are enigmas in Tolkien's Middle-earth legendarium. Her name may be a Westron derivative of the Sindarin Golodh-bereth, meaning "Flower Queen". Another explanation offered up for her is that she was originally a Maia spirit who "went native", binding herself to the river, perhaps somewhat like Melian binding herself to Elu Thingol.[1] Others have speculated that she may even be Yavanna herself,
Old man willow:
According to Tom Bombadil, long ago at the dawn of time in Middle-earth, long before even Awakening of the Elves, trees were the only inhabitants of vast stretches of the world. Because the Elves awoke far in the East, it was still a considerable time before any other beings spread into the vast primeval forests of western Middle-earth. A handful of trees survived from this time until the present day, who are angered at the encroachment of Elves and Men and their dominion over the earth; trees who bitterly remember a time long ago when they were as Lords of vast regions of the world. Bombadil relates that of the corrupted trees of the Old Forest, "none were more dangerous than the Great Willow; his heart was rotten, but his strength was green; and he was cunning, and a master of winds, and his song and thought ran through the woods on both sides of the river. His grey thirsty spirit drew power out of the earth and spread like fine root-threads in the ground, and invisible twig-fingers in the air, till it had under its dominion nearly all the trees of the Forest from the Hedge to the Downs.
Wraith:
Ghostly beings that existed more in the hidden Wraith-world than our own. The most famous of these were the Ring-wraiths, Men ensnared by Sauron's Nine Rings, but their victims, too, were transformed into wraiths.
Huorns:
Huorns are creatures much like Ents, but it is not clear if Huorns are Ents that have become treeish, or trees that have become Entish. It is implied that both varieties exist, though the theory espoused by the characters is that Huorns are Ents who have become more treeish and wild.
Huorns are much more dangerous and less intellectual than their more awake counterparts. They especially hate orcs, but any creatures that chop wood too freely are their enemies. They are vengeful, but their methods of exacting revenge are unspecified; people do not leave the forest if the Huorns do not let them. Huorns can create darkness to conceal their movements and are capable of moving quickly. They still have voices and can speak to the Ents, but unlike Ents, they do not seem able to speak intelligibly to other races.
Animals:
Animals that live in the old forest, talking animals.
Story
I'm not sure in what time the story will take place. Tom has lived since the world's creation. So either the story can be be
imaginary. Or it could be taken from one of the more famous poems made by JRR Tolkien. But there is a lot to be done before it's time to think about the storyline. And what each level should be about.
Screenshots
if you got any ideas or want to help you can. I'm working alone atm. If you want to help here is what you can do:
- Modeler
- Texturer (Badly needed)
- Python coder
- Bge logic bricks
- Concept/Ideas
Ok I got 4 different versions of Tom. Which version do you like best and why? And is there anything you would like to see that is not on him? If there is nothing that needs to be added, I'm gonna take a break from Tom and his textures and start working on Goldberry
Edited by Hermoor, 26 October 2009 - 10:02 PM.
