Post #155210
December 28, 2020, 04:01:06 AM
Okay, so my two ideas to make this thing work are to either give Sauron and allies some sort of shape-shifting ability (or perhaps illusion magic), or to simply have them obscure their presence in large battle scenes through some sort of mystic fog to hide their presence. This might be a departure from lore, but I am having trouble envisioning how it's going to work otherwise.
The shapeshifting route would also require me to create new characters, or maybe just use ones not featured in the story. Either way, expect the tone of my flavour to be quite a bit darker than LotR proper.
I am also going to let it start off pretty much from the Council of Elrond. I see no reason to rehash everything in the books/movies up to that point.