[Vales Spoilers] After 12 years, LOTRO finally crossed a lore bridge I can't follow

[LabadalofDorlomin]

Where would you rather go? What would make more sense? Where would such lore NOT be 'contrived'?

There is such a lot of uncontrived, (Wouldn't you class a fictional story as contrived in the first place?) story for the timeline we are running.

Take a look at the original contrived timeline

There is so much going on in the coming months in the main story.
As I said in a couple of my earlier posts, why are we not engaging in the areas that we know. I'm all for fleshing out the map, don't get me wrong, but I want to be, for the first time in this game, running back and forth telling all and sundry what I and my fellows have been a part of. Then help them rebuild. Help get the charges of the Harad to submit and finally be pardoned by Ellesar. Obviously we can't head back to the shire before Sharkey and his henchmen have arrived but the Vales? Spider changelings?

It is what it is... but lets us please forget about fictitious battles with Shelob.... It is even more an abhorrent lore breach than the aforementioned.

Shelob was gone; and whether she lay long in her lair, nursing her malice and her misery, and in slow years of darkness healed herself from within, rebuilding her clustered eyes, until with hunger like death she spun once more her dreadful snares in the glens of the Mountains of Shadow, this tale does not tell.

I hope that we don't cross this line.... let me explain why....... when I get home from work

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Explanation:


So, three phrases stick out.. "Shelob was gone", "in slow years of darkness healed herself" and "this tale does not tell"

So,

• "Shelob was gone" - a statement of fact or a statement that the author was done with this character? or both?
• "in slow years of darkness healed herself" - a question left for us to ponder? But by the statement "was gone"! leads to the belief that it was meant to be that way and in any case the "slow years" negates any chance without breaking the lore, that we should see her in game.
• "this tale does not tell" - maybe you would think this could lend itself to the fact that other tales could be written but should be read as a clear instruction coupled with the other 2 points above.