Quote Originally Posted by TheArtilleryman View Post
It’s not the storyline around Lhaereth that I mind, it’s the whole concept of the merrevail that I don’t like. I just don’t believe them in the setting of Middle Earth (yes I know people will say Thuringwethil but I just think they are cheap in design and not in keeping with Tolkien’s style at all).

My favourite villain? Obviously, encountering the actual Tolkien characters like Saruman, the Watcher and Shelob has been awesome. However I really loved the whole Mordirith/Gothmog storyline. It was so involved, so multi-faceted and so entwined with the lore (making him Earnur - a stroke of genius), as well as providing the Moriarty to our Holmes.
Fair point about the merrevail - I don't mind them as much, but I can see how irritating they must be if they don't feel believable to you.

Yeah, making Mordirith/Gothmog into Earnur, and the way that his story was so beautifully woven into the established lore (as well as all the fleshing out of his character that we got at the end of the Black Book) really was a master stroke.