Tolkien and the colours

[Marguerita]

Ceorai, you have taken the words right out of my mouth. So far is the water-color look of this world from shiny, it's matte, like tempera.

I agree totally and i should have made my post clearer but with all my apologize my words did not met my thoughts.

As i said a little further while attempting to be more clear, is that i was not referencing to the world itself, but to something which for me dont match well how the world is coloured : bright horses, bright dresses, bright armors (not say flashy... one little more and during the night you will see horses even with no moon).

As for Middle-Earth itself, when you travel through it, the palette of coulours are incredible and wonderful, going from the pales one to the warm ones. And i would not change anything

But again i am in trouble with some of the new colours for items, outfit, horses (not the horse itself but the garnment). The first in Lotro where amazing, today i just wonder if the goal is to make those more and more brilliant, clinquant.

But we need for all tastes, i know.


But to stay on my topic : as an exemple if i am not wrong ..

In that time the fleets of the Númenóreans darkened the sea upon the west of the land, and they were like an archipelago of a thousand isles; their masts were as a forest upon the mountains, and their sails like a brooding cloud; and their banners were golden and black. Akkalabeth.

Also Tolkien created/used Elves Heraldry, and more ... and none of those are as colourful as the last items in game.

I think i will have to read more and more in the next days to find my answer for the Colours of Gondor, Rohan, and more.

Thank you