So I went through the effort of doing the anniversary scavenger hunt in order to find the horn of gondor in the Anduin for the intro, only to find that quest has largely been cut. Thanks SSG! Also, lots of characters in this video tie back to my second Helm's Deep episode. Go check it out if you haven't yet! ua-cam.com/video/nY2_i8m3MEo/v-deo.htmlsi=HKNIfqyHlxc6ov9B
I really appreciated the inclusion of the pictures of the characters as you went over their deaths. There's so many, it feels nye impossible to remember who they are and where they came from
Did some work on the next one yesterday in fact! I'm almost done with the part that I actually have to do questing for, which is time consuming. Once that's done I can start the actual recording part.
Wow good job on this gem of a video. I've waited to watch this video because I am re-reading the books and I wanted to wait until I reached the end of the fifth book (part 1 of the return of the king). I got goosebumps when you read the names of the fallen (non canon/canon) of the Pellenor Fields and even more goosebumps when you paid hommage to Bernard Hill. Again: good job!
Thank you for the nice Video. But something irritates me, I just play another Twink up to lvl 150, an recently played exactly this Story part, but my Horn survived !? Did you know on which occasion He survived or ... as in Your Video he dies ?
It may be a reference to the book. In the book it refers to Horn as having died at the battle of Pelennor Field. It is but a single sentence, and it gives no details of how. Yet his name always stuck in my head. So when we meet him in-game, anyone who is aware of his literary fate thinks: “Uh-oh! This is going to end badly.” I really liked the character development the game gave Horn. So when they decided to bend the rules, by having him survive but only we know about it, I figured he deserved the break.
In the game, it's dependant on a certain choice of quests. If you have the ranger Halros come with you on the Grey Company's journey south, then Horn will live through the battle of the Pelennor. If you choose to have Halros remain in the Shire, then Horn will not survive. In the book, however, there is a reference in a poem, along with other men of the Rohirrim, who died in the battle. "Harding and Guthláf, Dúnhere and Déorwine, doughty Grimbold, Herefara, Herubrand, Horn and Fastred fought and fell there in a far country". I think that the devs paid a little tribute to it, in a way.
The answers above are correct! Horn can live or die depending who joins the grey company. On this character I haven't done most of the story so he died. I was surprised to learn while making this video that he is in fact mentioned among the dead at the end of the battle in the RoTK book, thus making him technically canon. A really clever long play by SSG! Stuff like this is hard to explain in a video without breaking the flow, so thanks for asking!
It depends upon how you answered a quest way back at Level 65 in the Epic Vol. III, Book 1., Ch. 4...if you say Halros should stay, the outcome is different than if you say Halros should go.
If Horn doesn‘t die, the line in RoTK is actually still explained in game. There, Gleowine is the bard who writes the song and after the battle he remarks, that Horn has changed so much during the battle that the person he was before is dead. Therefore he lists him in his song, even though he did not physically die
So I went through the effort of doing the anniversary scavenger hunt in order to find the horn of gondor in the Anduin for the intro, only to find that quest has largely been cut. Thanks SSG!
Also, lots of characters in this video tie back to my second Helm's Deep episode. Go check it out if you haven't yet! ua-cam.com/video/nY2_i8m3MEo/v-deo.htmlsi=HKNIfqyHlxc6ov9B
This was deeply moving. Such a worthy tribute.
Quite auspicious timing, I was just listening to this chapter of the audiobook at work tonight.
magnificent :)) you have gotten so good at this since your first videos btw. touching tribute to Bernard Hill as well
I LOVE your story-telling and the visuals from LOTRO; your videos add a depth and richness to questing in the game
This video releasing on the same week Bernard Hill passed is... oddly fitting. A fine tribute.
Thank you for a fantastic video!
Damn man you really know how to put together a narrative. Thank you for your videos
Thank you for this very poignant video, released in the same week that the legendary Bernard Hill passed away. ♥
Every single time in the books, and in the films, and now in this video..... goosebumps.
Appreciate ya. Thanks for sharing.
I really appreciated the inclusion of the pictures of the characters as you went over their deaths. There's so many, it feels nye impossible to remember who they are and where they came from
Thank you! In hindsight I am super glad I covered all the quests in West Rohan in the second Helm's Deep video. It really pays off here.
please continue the story i beg thee! 😅 this was literally the highest quality LOTRO content the community has seen in years, maybe ever.
Did some work on the next one yesterday in fact! I'm almost done with the part that I actually have to do questing for, which is time consuming. Once that's done I can start the actual recording part.
@@Burning-Embers awesome :) love to hear it
A beautiful and touching episode.
Wow good job on this gem of a video. I've waited to watch this video because I am re-reading the books and I wanted to wait until I reached the end of the fifth book (part 1 of the return of the king).
I got goosebumps when you read the names of the fallen (non canon/canon) of the Pellenor Fields and even more goosebumps when you paid hommage to Bernard Hill. Again: good job!
Thank you!
Once again a masterpiece ❤
Thank you for the nice Video. But something irritates me, I just play another Twink up to lvl 150, an recently played exactly this Story part, but my Horn survived !? Did you know on which occasion He survived or ... as in Your Video he dies ?
It may be a reference to the book. In the book it refers to Horn as having died at the battle of Pelennor Field. It is but a single sentence, and it gives no details of how. Yet his name always stuck in my head. So when we meet him in-game, anyone who is aware of his literary fate thinks: “Uh-oh! This is going to end badly.”
I really liked the character development the game gave Horn. So when they decided to bend the rules, by having him survive but only we know about it, I figured he deserved the break.
In the game, it's dependant on a certain choice of quests. If you have the ranger Halros come with you on the Grey Company's journey south, then Horn will live through the battle of the Pelennor. If you choose to have Halros remain in the Shire, then Horn will not survive.
In the book, however, there is a reference in a poem, along with other men of the Rohirrim, who died in the battle.
"Harding and Guthláf, Dúnhere and Déorwine,
doughty Grimbold, Herefara,
Herubrand, Horn and Fastred
fought and fell there in a far country".
I think that the devs paid a little tribute to it, in a way.
The answers above are correct! Horn can live or die depending who joins the grey company. On this character I haven't done most of the story so he died. I was surprised to learn while making this video that he is in fact mentioned among the dead at the end of the battle in the RoTK book, thus making him technically canon. A really clever long play by SSG! Stuff like this is hard to explain in a video without breaking the flow, so thanks for asking!
It depends upon how you answered a quest way back at Level 65 in the Epic Vol. III, Book 1., Ch. 4...if you say Halros should stay, the outcome is different than if you say Halros should go.
If Horn doesn‘t die, the line in RoTK is actually still explained in game. There, Gleowine is the bard who writes the song and after the battle he remarks, that Horn has changed so much during the battle that the person he was before is dead. Therefore he lists him in his song, even though he did not physically die