Idea - naming dungeon spell books

[Hounded]

If you want to find lore-appropriate names for the books, look to the names of owners of the Rings of Power. Those were really the only high-magic users in ME's low fantasy setting.

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Though for half-casters (Blackguard, Rogue, Ranger, Paladin) I find it strange that it has to be a "magic" book. Why not just a manual or reference book for their skill set?

[drquicksilver]

Some good discussion and some interesting ideas here. Let me just explain where I was coming from with the Ainur - because it wasn't a completely arbitrary idea and I certainly didn't think it was silly.

Obviously we have to take some kind of liberty because Tolkien's world is not a perfect match for Angband's game, and our characters in this game are not exactly like figures from his stories. However, there is a lot of magic in Tolkien, even though it doesn't really look like gnomes learning incantations out of books.

I personally think the two most obvious 'high' magic users are Gandalf and Saruman - if anyone is close to the Angband mage it's these two. That's why I chose their names for the red books and, actually, I think Arcane Control sounds reasonably up Gandalf's straight and Tome of Power is definitely right up Saruman's street. I used their less usual names just for fun and for the more exotic sound of them. Gandalf and Saruman are both Maiar and there is another Maia, Sauron who seems like a shoe-in for necromancy being the original necromancer; giving the other necromancy book to his boss made sense.

The Nature magic then just seemed like it might be allied to Yavanna and Valar were definitely capable of feats that we would identify as mighty magic. Radagast seemed like a good match for a Creature book and, honestly, Osse was a bit more tenuous.

Priestly powers are a stretch (there isn't much about 'praying' in Tolkien) but since several of the powers themselves already reference Manwe and his allies it didn't seem that big a stretch - Wrath itself already has a prayer inside it named after him.

[Nick]

Oangband has books which are representative of a few of the ideas here:
Radagast's Shapeshifts
Melian's Lore
Bombadil's Songs
Spirit of Yavanna
Mysteries of Angmar

[DavidMedley]

Tolkien's characters do in fact call upon the Ainur to get magical effects.

[Voovus]

I'm with tangar here: this is sacrilege, not Tolkienization.

Is there really anything wrong with, say (for priests):
Beginner's Handbook
Words of Wisdom
Chants and Blessings
Exorcism and Dispelling

[Nick]

I'm with tangar here: this is sacrilege, not Tolkienization.

Is there really anything wrong with, say (for priests):
Beginner's Handbook
Words of Wisdom
Chants and Blessings
Exorcism and Dispelling

Well, I can give you a sneak peek here of what I'm planning next...

[DavidMedley]

Well, I can give you a sneak peek here of what I'm planning next...

You're going to publish an unfinished beta and sail into The West??

[whartung]

Blackguard.

Charge! - a novel
Fear! - a collection of poems and sonnets
Blood! - tools and techniques
Dance Fighting - curiously blank

[Hounded]

Blackguard.

Charge! - a novel
Fear! - a collection of poems and sonnets
Blood! - tools and techniques
Dance Fighting - curiously blank

"Pride and Prejudice and Mayhem" ??

[Voovus]

"Pride and Prejudice and Mayhem" ??

Use your Illusion
Appetite for Destruction
...

These might fit a mage better, though...

[DavidMedley]

Blackguard.

Charge! - a novel
Fear! - a collection of poems and sonnets
Blood! - tools and techniques
Dance Fighting - curiously blank

This made me laugh

[invisibletroll]

Dance Fighting sounds like Capoeira.