-- Preview of Middle-earth --

[Withwnar]

Whoa! Brilliant! I had to stop looking... I want to save this for when I'm playing!

+rep :thumbsup4

[Hengest]

could we see an overview or two of the map please? it is difficult to see how all things areas go together

[nic1794]

i love that map....is just the map final? or all the settlements final to? they seem really spread out.

i love osgiliath and cair andros

[King Théoden]

That is A M A Z I N G ! ! ! +rep... as always

[Mithrandir]

1)Is Cair Andros a fort or a fortress?.

It's a Castle, from the looks of it (it's a settlement, anyway).

2)Do I need ships to get over anduin near osgiliath or do you add landbridges?

In order to cross the Anduin at Osgiliath, you need to control both sides of the city.

3)Do you really want Moria look like this?

Technically, I guess we could edit the strat map model to look like a mountain. :hmmm:

It would be cool to have map of weathertop

Amon Sûl = Weathertop

[Cyrus the Virus]

Splendid!

[Dario, the Sicilian]

Wow, the words I can think of just aren't enough to say how AMAZING this is! To bad I can't give +rep yet.
What's that agent near Minas Tirith? I remember I saw it before in a map preview or something like that and someone of the mod team said: "It's just a bush......." But it doesn't looks like a bush to me! I believe it's a spy or assasin, am I right? Or is it supposed to be a secret until the mod is out?

[Nevada]

this is an amazing map!

Great models and heights!

[Lupu]

Can I ask who made those awesome map textures? +REP!

[King Kong]

Thanks everyone for the feedback!

To answer some things:

Also, some cities seem to not have roads connecting to others, is this intended? :hmmm:

most settlements just havn't built roads yet. However, I have built the map with the complete road network so that I could adjust the geography organically and fitting to the roads.

GREEAAAT work!!!gratz!!!2 questions:i hope that black gate will be figured on the map and also dol guldur...!

strat map yes, battle map no, or better not yet...

Do I need ships to get over anduin near osgiliath or do you add landbridges? (these green arrows between 2 coasts :wink: )

There is a landbridge between east and west osg., which I have just made invisible because those green arrows were so ugly.

could we see an overview or two of the map please? it is difficult to see how all things areas go together

Well, you can see the whole map outline in the first picture, which is the radar map. I don't want to show all parts of the map to leave some surprises when you finally play the mod.

What's that agent near Minas Tirith? I remember I saw it before in a map preview or something like that and someone of the mod team said: "It's just a bush......." But it doesn't looks like a bush to me! I believe it's a spy or assasin, am I right? Or is it supposed to be a secret until the mod is out?

Ups, actually I wanted to delete this character before making the screenshot. Anyway, all I can say is that this is NOT a bush!! But it is something evil...

Can I ask who made those awesome map textures? +REP!

Some are my own, some base textures are from Shved, but I have modified them all heavily.
However, the real (time-consuming) difficulty was to make smooth junctions between many different textures and colour shades to give the map a more organic feel.

[Swagger]

something evil + bush = Evil Bush


that evil bush can kick your armies in the

[King Ardumanish]

thanks for these quick answers... i really want to kill some orcs on this map

[Varjon]

I know what it is since it was left to Alpha version.

[Pat89]

Really Really awesome

I can't wait for this to be released

[Alerion]

The map is beautiful work indeed, though I have a few questions.
1)As someone mentioned before shouldn't the Argonath both face the lake? It was mentioned that way in the books I think.(not sure though)
2)The Grey Heavens were partly on bothe sides of the gulf, is it possible to make them same way as Osgiliath? If not having Harlond more south west would be good.
3)Wasn't Rivendell in somekind of valley? I mean it should be in more "Highish land" as the "Highland" started not far east from it.
4)Is Annuminas just not seeable on the screenshot or is it not there? If the second I think it should, as there was no major battle there it wasn't destroyed as for example Fornost.
5)Are there Dwarven cities in Iron hills(Does the map reach to them?)?
6)The land you named Harad is actually Harondor(at least mostly)
7)Mirkwood is just beautiful can't stop looking at it.
8)Moria is well done though I think the border of the "terrain" it govers should be much smaller on the east.
9)Is there no Black gate model? I mean the settlement looks same as other orc ones.

Anyway as I said perfect work as always.

[Erunion Telcontar]

Map is absolutely beautiful!

However, the Mordor, Raurus and Harad pictures don't load on my comp!!! :'(
Could you look into that? I'm running Firefox on a Mac G5.

[Mithrandir]

4)Is Annuminas just not seeable on the screenshot or is it not there? If the second I think it should, as there was no major battle there it wasn't destroyed as for example Fornost.

It's there, it's just not in the preview.

5)Are there Dwarven cities in Iron hills(Does the map reach to them?)?

I'd be surprised if not.

However, the Mordor, Raurus and Harad pictures don't load on my comp!!! :'(
Could you look into that? I'm running Firefox on a Mac G5.

I think I found the problem.

[sirfiggin]

hmmm.. because you've released the "final" map review, I guess that means the mod is almost finished?

[Kiam]

OMG The map is so nice!!!

+ rep for sure...you the man Kong...or the abe

[Mithrandir]

hmmm.. because you've released the "final" map review, I guess that means the mod is almost finished?

It means the map is finished.