Slayers. It's old, but fun.

I don't think my DM could handle a campaign going Excel Saga. Or me. Or the rest of the group.

There's an old saying that every DM wants their D&D campaign to be Record of Lodoss War (serious, dramatic high fantasy), but it always turns out to be Slayers (selfish PCs causing chaos wherever they go, but saving the world when the chips are down).

B bel looks like Sanskrit bala "strong".

H1 h1engw looks like Sanskrit agni or Latin ignis, but why n-gw instead of g-n?

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It's not one wug, two wugayn, three awaag?

It could use maps for Japan and for Tokyo specifically, because the map for Japan is pretty much a unified blob from Tokyo to Hiroshima.

The gameplay looked to me even more like the Mario & Luigi games, where the timed defense is a full dodge or parry rather than reducing damage and it is necessary for survival.

If you're being serious, World Food Programme. It's the UN's food handout program.

I agree now that the "Fall of the Noldor" movie(s) has/have to end with the realms of the Noldor in place. And I like that epilogue idea of discovering Men.

How could we make the first movie interesting to a blockbuster audience? Maybe expand on the Great Journey?

I've been thinking since I posted and I fear I might have to split the last movie too. The fall of Doriath, the fall of Gondolin, Earendil's voyage, and the War of Wrath and general tying-up of loose ends is an awful lot to pack into one movie. It's a shame that these are also the stories Tolkien expanded upon the least.

But now we've got six movies!

That's not too uncommon for the "short a" sound of "cat" and "campus". All I can figure is that it's so far front in the mouth that it sounds more like ヤ than ア to the Japanese ear.

I think we need at least four movies:

1. The Fall of the Noldor: from "as early as is reasonable" to somewhere between the rising of the sun and the establishment of the realms of the Noldor

2. Beren and Lúthien. Put the Dagor Bragollach in the prologue.

3. The Children of Húrin. Put the Nirnaeth Arnoediad in the prologue.

4. The Fall of Gondolin and Raising of the Star. Put the War of Wrath and the fate of the Silmarils at the end of this movie.

I'm not sure where we can put the Fall of Doriath, but I'd put it in The Fall of Gondolin instead of Beren and Lúthien. I don't want to ruin the end of Beren and Lúthien by ending it with their son and grandsons killed.