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Minecraft build server recreating the world of J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth. Proud users of the @ConReforged mod.
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Here’s how our Middle-earth is shaping up by the end of 2023 - very proud of the progress that’s been made this year, and looking forward to seeing what we can achieve in 2024!
#Tolkien
#LotR
#worldbuilding
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We are excited to announce that at 1PM PST Friday,
@blaustoise
,
@Sykkuno
,
@Kkatamina
and
@EllumYT
will be streaming an adventure through our map.
This is the biggest feature we've ever had, and to help them (and us) get to Mordor, we've set up a ko-fi!
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Some shots from around the town of Bree - fully rebuilt over the past six months to match our current standards.
#Tolkien
#LotR
#WeAreConquest
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When you’re in an intently analysing fantasy maps competition and ArdaCraft walks in
(our hydrological analysis of Middle-earth)
why would i touch grass when i can intently analyse fantasy world maps instead
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The Mouths of the Entwash and the river Anduin.
These vast marshes shield Gondor and Rohan from the wilderness to the north.
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“Then something Tookish woke up inside him, and he wished to go and see the great mountains, and hear the pine-trees and the waterfalls, and explore the caves, and wear a sword instead of a walking-stick…”
#Tolkien
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#WeAreConquest
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Caras Galadhon, the city and fortress of the Galadhrim of Lothlórien and the home of Lord Celeborn and Lady Galadriel, has been completed.
#Tolkien
#LotR
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"Three Elf-towers of immemorial age were still to be seen on the Tower Hills beyond the western marches...
It is said that the towers were raised by Gil-galad for Elendil, his friend. The Seeing Stone of Emyn Beraid was set in Elostirion, the tallest of the towers."
#Tolkien
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"Frodo was now safe in the Last Homely House east of the Sea... Merely to be there was a cure for weariness, fear, and sadness."
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The waterfront and interiors of Lisclorn, a riverside town in Anórien on the northern borders of Gondor.
The town has stood here for centuries and was heavily inspired by Byzantine architecture.
#Tolkien
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@jccoffey_
@LOTRonPrime
"Cast off these cold rags! Run naked on the grass"
"but Túrin overcame him, and set him to run naked as a hunted beast through the woods"
"She fled... and tore off all her clothing as she ran, until she was naked"
Better avoid the books too!
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ArdaCraft has now updated to Fabric 1.19.2! This means much better performance, as well as guest plots where anyone can join and try their hand at building!
See our install guide here:
Art credit to
@MatejCadil
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Something we don’t often post is how our builds look while they’re in progress - these are all images of locations in Gondor.
#Tolkien
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We're delighted to announce that we will be presenting a paper at
#Oxonmoot
this year, hosted by the
@TolkienSociety
!
'Escaping the Shadow of the Past: Building a new vision of Middle-earth with ArdaCraft' will be presented live in Oxford by our founder Fornad.
#Tolkien
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Wonderful to see fanart of our builds from members of our community!
This is a town in northern Gondor sketched by Alice_2001 💙
#Tolkien
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This is a really terrible way to kick off the promotion for their new film.
WB immediately going after fan-made works deserves all the bad press it gets.
After being up for 15 years and after accumulating over 13 million views, The Hunt For Gollum fan film on YouTube has been copyright striked by WB on the day of the official film’s announcement. 😔
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5000 followers!
Thank you all for coming along on this journey through Middle-earth - here's some of our favourite shots from the last year.
#Tolkien
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Tharbad, the ancient ruined city of the Númenóreans on the river Greyflood, is now complete.
Its once-proud bridge has now collapsed, forming a dangerous ford where Boromir lost his horse on his journey to Rivendell.
#Tolkien
#LotR
#WeAreConquest
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All that is left of the realm of Beleriand are the island remnants in the sea west of Lindon.
This land of ancient tales and myths is now only a haven for gulls and seals, far from the strife and battles of Middle-earth.
#Tolkien
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"Within there rise the roofs of houses; and in the midst, set upon a green terrace, there stands aloft a great hall of Men. And it seems to my eyes that it is thatched with gold. The light of it shines far over the land..."
#Tolkien
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Just another peaceful day at the Hornburg, Helm's Deep.
Video by
@Hearthseeker
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We were asked for more work-in-progress projects - we've got a few going!
This is Lisclorn, a town in northern Gondor on the banks of the Anduin. Most buildings are now complete, and we're beginning to fill out the farms around it.
#Tolkien
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Back from the Deep the echoes came, blast upon blast, as if on every cliff and hill a mighty herald stood. But on the walls men looked up; for the echoes did not die. Ever the horn-blasts wound on among the hills...
'Helm is arisen and comes back to war. Helm for Théoden King!'
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“...there, still high above them on a further slope, they saw the twinkling lights of a house... Suddenly a wide yellow beam flowed out brightly from a door that was opened. There was Tom Bombadil’s house before them, up, down, under hill.”
#LotR
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Work-in-progress shots of the Blue Mountains in the far north-west of Middle-earth - inspired by the landscapes of Scotland and Norway.
#Tolkien
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The Great Gates of Khazad-dûm in Azanulbizar. The high peak of Zirakzigil can be seen to the right, where Durin’s Bane was slain by the wizard Tharkûn.
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Few had survived the turmoils of the Elder Days; but when the Kings returned again over the Great Sea they had found the Bree-men still there, and they were still there now, when the memory of the old Kings had faded into the grass.
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Happy
#HobbitDay
!
A few shots of Bag End and Hobbiton, along with the wonderful art of
@MatejCadil
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‘I want to see mountains again, Gandalf, mountains, and then find somewhere where I can rest. In peace and quiet... I might find somewhere where I can finish my book. I have thought of a nice ending for it - "and he lived happily ever after to the end of his days".'
#Tolkien
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New
#terrain
day!
The West-march of Rohan has just been added to the server. With its carefully researched botanical zones, this region is a great preview of how our whole map will look in the future.
#Tolkien
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It was an old tradition that away over there stood the Grey Havens, from which at times elven-ships set sail, never to return.
‘They are sailing over the Sea. They are going into the West and leaving us,’ said Sam, half-chanting, shaking his head sadly and solemnly.
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An early preview of the new Misty Mountains, using the increased height limit in 1.18.
#Tolkien
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‘Have you often been to Rivendell?’ said Frodo.
‘I have,’ said Strider. ‘I dwelt there once, and still I return when I may. There my heart is; but it is not my fate to sit in peace, even in the fair house of Elrond.’
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The Westfold villages of Stipel, Aldorstowe, and Grimslade, near the White Mountains, looking through the gap of Rohan.
#WeAreConquest
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After much toil, the Grey Havens are finally complete - the largest city ever built in Conquest.
#WeAreConquest
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Looking over the fields of Rohan towards the Misty Mountains.
(taken using Distant Horizons 1.20)
#Tolkien
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An old walnut tree stands in the heart of Macheldun, a village in the West-march of Rohan.
The people of this region were of mixed heritage, and in the last years of the Third Age no longer felt much loyalty to King Théoden and the House of Eorl.
#Tolkien
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Running the Misty Mountains through
@Photoshop
's neural filters produces some incredible results.
All this terrain was made in Minecraft!
#Tolkien
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Tomorrow at 8pm GMT we will be holding an audiobook night on the server - listening to three chapters of
#LotR
while following along through our own builds.
We're raising money for the Red Cross effort in the
#TurkeySyriaEarthquake
, so please do join!
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"There are older and fouler things than Orcs in the deep places of the world."
This week's
#TolkienTrewsday
#TolkienTuesday
is about gaming. We have been re-creating Middle-earth for more than 8 years - pictured below is one of the caverns in Moria.
Anyone can join and explore!
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We were doing this before it was cool
Grant Major (the ‘Lord of the Rings’ trilogy) will serve as production designer on the live-action ‘MINECRAFT’ movie.
(Source: )
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Frodo wakes. ‘Where am I?’
‘In the House of Elrond. It is ten o’clock in the morning. The morning of October the twenty-fourth, if you want to know.’
‘Gandalf!’
‘Yes, I am here. And you are lucky to be here, too, after all the absurd things you have done since you left home.’
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Progress on Minas Tirith continues as the great stone prow begins to be sculpted.
If you’d like to apply to help us build, it’s now easier than ever. Check out the new Applications section on our Discord!
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Work is proceeding well in our new players area - this is where guests will arrive when they first join our server and begin their journey through Middle-earth!
It is a recreation of
@MertonCollege
in Oxford, where Tolkien was a professor.
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Possibly our most anticipated location of all time - Minas Tirith - is beginning to take shape thanks to
@eagincorporated
and
@wheellee1
.
Stay tuned.
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Is this the real life?
Is this just fantasy?
We can't get enough of the Hornburg and Helm's Deep. See more at
@PlanetMinecraft
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#WeAreConquest
#Fantasy
#Tolkien
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"As Pippin gazed in wonder the walls passed from looming grey to white, blushing faintly in the dawn; and suddenly the sun climbed over the eastern shadow and sent forth a shaft that smote the face of the City...."
ArdaCraft begins building the kingdom of Gondor this December.
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#TolkienTrewsday
#TolkienTuesday
#Tolkien
(Week 15 theme: "Mountains/Hills")
Our renditions of some of Middle-earth's mountain ranges - the Ered Luin, Ered Mithrin, Hithaeglir, and the western spur of the Ered Nimrais in Andrast.
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The world is grey, the mountains old,
The forge's fire is ashen-cold;
No harp is wrung, no hammer falls:
The darkness dwells in Durin's halls;
The shadow lies upon his tomb
In Moria, in Khazad-dûm...
#Tolkien
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A couple more views of the Hornburg.
At Helm's Gate, before the mouth of the Deep, there was a heel of rock thrust outward by the northern cliff. There upon its spur stood high walls of ancient stone, and within them was a lofty tower.
#LOTR
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"He came at last by arched streets and many fair alleys and pavements to the lowest and widest circle, and there he was directed to the Lampwrights’ Street..."
The White City continues to take shape!
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The latest overview of our map being made in
@WorldPainter
- the most detailed and accurate representation of Middle-earth ever made, using the text and maps drawn by
#Tolkien
, and incorporating watersheds/realistic landforms.
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Bree was the chief village of Bree-land, a small wooded region near the intersection of the main north-south and east-west routes through Eriador. -
@TolkienGateway
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The ruins of the old Númenórean city of Tharbad on the river Greyflood have been slowly sinking into the marshes for centuries.
In T.A. 3018, Boromir lost his horse at the dangerous river crossing here on his way north to Rivendell.
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"The Hornburg it was called, for a trumpet sounded upon the tower echoed in the Deep behind, as if armies long-forgotten were issuing to war from caves beneath the hills."
#HelmsDeep
#Rohan
#LotR
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A couple of views of our work-in-progress 'master map' of Middle-earth - the new and improved Blue Mountains are the latest addition!
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"'Hush!' said Gandalf. `Evil things do not come into this valley; but all the same we should not name them... We are sitting in a fortress. Outside it is getting dark.'
`Gandalf has been saying many cheerful things like that,' said Pippin."
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A look into our planning process - this is the layout for the ruined city of Tharbad, once an important river crossing in the days of Arnor.
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The chad minecraft build team vs. the virgin triple A games studio.
@WesterosCraft
@MCMiddleEarth
@WarhammerCraft_
@MCAlagaesia
@TLAMinecraft
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'Have you often been to Rivendell?' asked Frodo.
'I have,' said Strider. 'I dwelt there once, and still I return when I may. There my heart is; but it is not my fate to sit in peace, even in the fair house of Elrond.'
#Tolkien
#LotR
#WeAreConquest
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Tolkien's illustration > Build concept
(Concept for Barad-dûr - built by inAflash)
#Tolkien
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"That is the north boundary of Rohan; and of old all that lay between Limlight and the White Mountains belonged to the Rohirrim. It is a rich and pleasant land, and its grass has no rival..."
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#Rohan
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