Units?

[thomas.berubeg]

yes, in so much as the lived anywhere

 

[Love]

So why make rivendell a place for them, it should be, A wonder called "Rangers from the north" or something.

 

[thomas.berubeg]

maybe... we'll see

 

[T_F]

Maybe just make it the Arnor UU...

 

[thomas.berubeg]

Maybe just make it the Arnor UU...

The UU?
TSK TSK! all the civs will have many UUs,

I mean, i can't see the Shadow having only one UU...

 

[T_F]

Okay, an Arnor UU. Wasn't meaning to imply anything!

 

[thomas.berubeg]

i'm just kidding

 

[T_F]

Who gets the Istari?

 

[Love]

Isnt that a project?

 

[Elda King]

Anyone. Except perhaps the Shadow. But only Gandalf and maybe Radagast will be heroes, Saruman is already a leader.

 

[xmen510]

No love for the 2 Blue Wizards that went east and into the south? Oh well, I guess we can't have everything.

 

[Love]

We dont know so much about them, and saruman would get himself as a leader heroe...

 

[T_F]

Hmm... perhaps we could assign wizards to groups - Saruman gets the evil men and orcs (or rather the other way around), the Elves and the good men get Gandalf, and ???????? get Radagast.

 

[Love]

Saruman isnt pure evil... He just got addicted to the ring and Sauron used him as Saruman believed he and Sauron could ally...

 

[T_F]

Essentially, he became evil. No, he's not pure evil, only Morgoth is pure evil. He got decieved, but I think if he wasn't quite evil, then he wouldn't have wrecked the Shire later.

 

[Love]

That was because he was getting mad...

 

[Elda King]

Well, Saruman currently is a leader of the Dunlendings. He may or may not become evil, it depends on the player. He may become a king unit if we include king units (it's on the plans, but to be done only when we finish the heroes). And the Blue Wizards are an option, but they are so unimportant to the story that I found it better to don't put them.

 

[Love]

They was spying or allied whith/on the southern mens i believe,

 

[Pariah]

Their names were Alatar and Pallando. To quote the Wikipedia article on The Blue Wizards:

in a text written in the last year or two of Tolkien's life (published in The Peoples of Middle-earth). An alternate set of names are given — Morinehtar and Rómestámo (or Rome(n)star), Darkness-slayer and East-helper. It is not clear whether these names were intended to be replacements for Alatar and Pallando or whether they were a second set of names (for instance, their names used in Middle-earth, in the same vein as "Gandalf" is used for Olórin).

They are said to have arrived not in the Third Age, but in the Second, around the year 1600, the time of the Forging of the One Ring. Their mission though is still to the east, to weaken the forces of Sauron. And it is here said that the Wizards far from failed; rather, they had a pivotal role in the victories of the West at the end of both the Second and the Third Ages. At the same time, Tolkien considered the possibility that Glorfindel arrived back in Middle-earth along with the Blue Wizards. On this later, more positive interpretation, the Blue Wizards may have been as successful as Olórin, just located in a different theatre beyond the borders of the map in The Lord of the Rings.

Might as well include them, if only as names on the lists of Great People.

 

[thomas.berubeg]

as great spies, possibly.