In a few weeks I may be the lucky recipient of the core rules, the GM tool kit and the Adv. tool kit!
Out of the 3 I see no halfligs, but are there any magic schools?
Is there a contents list?
Soon my beauties...soon....
3 faiths and 3 magic schools in the core set, no halflings
check out the support page for a card and component contents list of core set and toolkit.
Ohh exciting
though on a semi-serious note.. enough with the halflings! Lotr anyone?
Yes, halfling come from LOTR. So do elves, dwarfs, the concept of humans working with those species, the words for orcs and goblins if nothing else...
Halflings are just as much a part of the setting as elves
They are all living beings... 
phobiandarkmoon said:
Yes, halfling come from LOTR. So do elves, dwarfs, the concept of humans working with those species, the words for orcs and goblins if nothing else...
Halflings are just as much a part of the setting as elves
The terms orc and goblin come from long before Tolkien. As do dwarves and elves. Tolkien just used them but they are quite the staple of fantasy RPGs.
Not that I'd go solely on the information in wikipedia, its a good starting place but there are many other references, legends and lore about as well.
Loswaith said:
phobiandarkmoon said:
Yes, halfling come from LOTR. So do elves, dwarfs, the concept of humans working with those species, the words for orcs and goblins if nothing else...
Halflings are just as much a part of the setting as elves
The terms orc and goblin come from long before Tolkien. As do dwarves and elves. Tolkien just used them but they are quite the staple of fantasy RPGs.
Not that I'd go solely on the information in wikipedia, its a good starting place but there are many other references, legends and lore about as well.
Well yes, but in their man-sized incarnation warhammer borrows heavily from Tolkien's world. Halflings are just a little more obvious
Thanks for that.
I heard the 2nd print run was already out, has the errata been updated?
phobiandarkmoon said:
Well yes, but in their man-sized incarnation warhammer borrows heavily from Tolkien's world. Halflings are just a little more obvious
Halflings/Hobbits certainly were a Tolkien invention to appeal to children, for the story of The Hobbit, but everything else is torn bleeding from a mix of primarily Norse and Celtic traditions. Including the 'man-sized' elves right down into thier 'disappearing into the west'. Simple ideas such as kings without a country bearing broken swords are highly symbolic referencesRead some of the other books written before Tolkien became known to the masses to see other writers mining the same rich veins .. try Lord Dunsany .. or even Poul Andersons "The Broken Sword".
Tolkiens interest was in linguistics, so his major creative flow was for all the languages and his fantasy world was as much a place for his languages as anything else. On occasion, he claimed to be trying to write a folklore for Middle England, but his tales have, since the 60's, become far better known than the tales on which they were based.