Lord Of The Rings Online Player Accurately Recreates Frodo's...

It took five months and "meticulous" planning to put together the lore-accurate recreation of Frodo's epic quest to destroy the One Ring.

Sean Bean once famously said that "one does not simply walk into Mordor," and hoo boy was he ever wrong on that one. Demonstrating his utter wrongness yet again is the Emulated Vintage Gaming YouTube channel, which recently posted a 10 hour long video of a lore-accurate recreation of Frodo's epic journey from Bag End to Mordor in Lord of the Rings Online.

'Frodo walks from the Shire to Mordor,' as it's called, is not as dramatic or exciting as Peter Jackson's famed film trilogy: It is literally a recording of Frodo walking—walking, take note, not running, although he does get to ride here and there when the books say so—along the route originally followed by the Fellowship. At various spots along the way, Andy Serkis chimes in to describe the scene via audio clips taken from the Lord of the Rings audiobooks, which as chosen line up remarkably well with the events happening on screen.

But even though it lacks the cinematic oomph of an Oscar-winning Hollywood film trilogy, the video is an undeniably impressive undertaking, and I dropped a line to EVG to ask what inspired him to do such a thing.

"Escapism, mainly," the channel owner, who asked to go unnamed, replied. "Like anyone who's read the books or seen the movies, it's impossible not to want to inhabit Middle-earth in some way. Lord of the Rings Online is the closest one can get to experiencing Tolkien's realm the way countless works of art, games, music and entertainment have attempted over the past half-century.

"For me, and many other players, you find yourself wandering and wondering at the beauty of the world around you. 'I remember that bit from the book!' is a common thought as you stroll through the Shire, or explore Rivendell, or Lòrien. You notice the attention and love the devs put into every little detail—an impressive feat for such a sprawling universe. So I thought I would try to see just how close I could follow Frodo's journey, using the Fellowship of the Ring as a guide, as I wended my way from Hobbiton to Bree. When I saw just how perfectly the game design followed Tolkien's imagination, I decided then and there to do it properly, beginning to end."

EVG's video immediately brought to mind LOTRO's Great Hobbit Run, a fan-organized annual event that sees a mob of low-level players attempt to haul ass directly to Mount Doom. EVG said the Hobbit Ru

Source: PC Gamer