[Breaking] Rise of Mordor: Release Date Hints and Speculations!

[♔atthias♔]

Why? The answe is in the first post

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[Maestro1]

Topic opened again.
Of course Eönwë would not halt your speculations. It is his wish that his message is not forgotten, but heeded, since it contains the answer we have all been looking for. And friend or foe have not yet guessed his mind. No Vala, Ainu or any Child of Ilúvatar has yet...

[Lord of Tuft]

I'm a fairly big Tolkien nerd, but I'm having trouble finding any hint for a date, year, season or anything to help. I know you've said time and time again that it isn't, but I'm still reading "don't ask for release date". Are you absolutely sure this isn't just some clever ploy to keep us busy guessing for a release date while you chaps work? I'll keep thinking about this when I have time until the mods released either way. Keep it up, lads!

[Maestro1]

I'm as sure as there is ash on the plains of Gorgoroth, as there is light in Aman, and darkness in the Unmeasured Deep, that there is a date in the message from the Herald of Manwë

[SargonTheDude]

For some reason I'm thinking it'll be in winter. I can't extrapolate, just a gut feeling I get from the poem.

[Alkar]

For some reason I'm thinking it'll be in winter. I can't extrapolate, just a gut feeling I get from the poem.

Better yet, Christmas! December! Would be a popular and logical time to release something imo.

[heiasafari]

7 December 2016

[Sk1p56]

7 December 2016

How did you get that?

[dajarvi]

I would speculate that given the theme of refresh and renew of things starting from a beginning that the release date is actually January 1st, 2017

[Alkar]

Release date is when alpha factions are complete.

[Maestro1]

Release data is in the poem. Can no one read Eönwë's message?

[Empire_tw281]

This Mod ain't coming out till next year easy. I don't see them finishing Rohan or Mordor and the elves just near complete i'd say. Got the free peoples as well which we haven't seen any of neither. My prediction April 2017. Perhaps even later. This mod has died abit now without campaign anyways. I even gave my mod award 2016 vote to Medieval 1212ad.

[Empire_tw281]

Although I do admit that custom fights with well detailed settlement maps would be fun.

[Commissar Caligula_]

This Mod ain't coming out till next year easy. I don't see them finishing Rohan or Mordor and the elves just near complete i'd say. Got the free peoples as well which we haven't seen any of neither. My prediction April 2017. Perhaps even later. This mod has died abit now without campaign anyways. I even gave my mod award 2016 vote to Medieval 1212ad.

The mod would've been disqualified from the Mod Awards anyways so no worries about voting for Medieval 1212 (they won the Players Choice, so your vote counted).
The mod hasn't really died, its a big disappointment that the mod tools for Attila's campaign are so and unpatched but we're still working hard on creating the models and custom battle balancing. If the big Youtubers host cool tournaments or something it can still/will be a great mod.

In terms of release, only Gondor/Mordor/Dale/Rohan/Isengard are going to be in the first release, the rest will come later.

[Nikoline]

Because mordor is completely different,guys need more time on models making.I really understand why it takes so long even to release a preview.But many days pass now, shall we know something new?

[The Once and Future King]

Sounds legit

[TheRomanRuler]

Release data is in the poem. Can no one read Eönwë's message?

i love what you did with riddle, but no i have absolutely no idea what it means. I am bad at these things so that means nothing, but it seems lot of people are clueless.
Would be great actually if you would not tell us when it gets released and just surprise those of us who did not understand the riddle.

[Sobakel]

'From the earliest years of Arda
Before the days of the light of Varda
The revival of Arnor, the enduring of Gondor
The Guardian of the Wood, the Axe of Erebor.

The Demise of the Seed of lie, and deceit, the Banning of Gorthaur
The Day all Middle-Earth, does not fall to devour!
By the Valar, thereupon, the key is no longer concealed!
Not by force, but by hope and loyalty, it can be revealed.

If lust for power and dominion reign,
Should knowledge attempt to delve too deep
Then hope and endeavour shall be in vain
And thy spirit shall wander, the Eldar, shall weep
When the Sun is gone, and the Moon is dead
No light on thy path. No more sign, to be read.'

Simple..

there are 3 parts meaning day-month-year.

So first part;
Guardian of the wood.. what is something that grows from wood? Leafs.. when do leafs grow? Spring.. spring contains 6 letters and if you substract the 4 letters of wood from it you are left with 2. Meaning it will be on the second day of..

Second part. last sentence starts with "not by force" and as this is not star wars, that's an obvious clue. Star Wars day is on May Fourth, so our month must be May.

Last part kind of stands for itself, doesn't need speculation imo. 2016 is nearly over and we wouldn't have this poem if he were to release it in 2018. So my guess is 2017.

Combine it all and you get DD-MM-YY = 02-05-2017
or if he uses the American standard MM-DD-YY = 05-02-2017

So either February fifth of May Second.

[Don Juan_de_Austria]

So either February fifth of May Second.

Hope you are right. Anyway nice work. +rep
I´m crossing my thumps for February 5th!

[Alkar]

Simple..

there are 3 parts meaning day-month-year.

So first part;
Guardian of the wood.. what is something that grows from wood? Leafs.. when do leafs grow? Spring.. spring contains 6 letters and if you substract the 4 letters of wood from it you are left with 2. Meaning it will be on the second day of..

Second part. last sentence starts with "not by force" and as this is not star wars, that's an obvious clue. Star Wars day is on May Fourth, so our month must be May.

Last part kind of stands for itself, doesn't need speculation imo. 2016 is nearly over and we wouldn't have this poem if he were to release it in 2018. So my guess is 2017.

Combine it all and you get DD-MM-YY = 02-05-2017
or if he uses the American standard MM-DD-YY = 05-02-2017

So either February fifth of May Second.

That's really out there but I like it!