My favorite part of J.R.R. Tolkein’s books? All of the characters who are rooted to one place and are physically incapable of going to collect their own crap until one day a stranger rides into town and plays fetch for them. Was so popular, it made it into the game — and the adaptation is spot-on!
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In fairness, you’d be reluctant to ever do anything either if there was a real chance that you’d be killed if you tried it yourself, but you happened to know there were large numbers of roaming adventurers whom the orcs and worgs etc will allow to retreat so long as they get to humiliate them first.
What I want to know is whether my cook gets a recipe for the horse meat from when the relic master butchers my horse so I can replace it with the next 3rd age I find. After all, nothing screams Tolkein like the time Aragorn had Anduril broken down for relics because the level cap had increased, and I’d hate for the horse to be treated with less respect than our weapons.
If they wanted to be scrupulously accurate to the books, one whole book of the Epic quests would be devoted to sitting around Rivendell, listening to each marquee character explain at length why they couldn’t possible do this delivery quest.