Check out our new video covering how we are creating Middle-earth’s terrain: youtu.be/WHXKu1-LR0Q?...

How we're building landscapes for Middle-earth

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Episode 69 from April of 2024 featured Fornad, the co-founder of ArdaCraft, discussing the creation of Middle-earth in Minecraft: athrabeth.simplecast.com/episodes/epi... Thank you for helping us wander through Middle-earth, @ardacraft.bsky.social!

Episode 69: A Lesser-Trod Interview with Fornad of ArdaCraft | Athrabeth

This month, Jude and Stef chat with Fornad, the founder and administrator of ArdaCraft - the biggest recreation of Middle-earth in Minecraft (and anywhere). Fornad tells us about how the project began...

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We can’t believe that we are on the list with these folks! We are huge fans of you all! 💚 @ardacraft.bsky.social @thetolkienist.com @teawithtolkien.com @jrsoundscapes.bsky.social @tolkienguide.com

Wonderful to get these pictures through from our lead composer Matthias Guntner as our official soundtrack is recorded live! Clips coming soon 🎶

Early tests for Mindolluin and Imloth Melui #minecraft

Wandering through the White Mountains

Well, mirror and goose #pixelart

Hi! Sharing my stuff on here, I do low-poly/pixel 3D art ☕

The forests of western Rohan

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A country path

Imagine starting a Minecraft project 10 years ago and then hearing an ex-Rockstar dev who worked on RDR2 say "you're using the same workflows that the mainstream game studios employ - all arrived at in relative isolation..." 🥹

Minas Tirith looming over the countryside

An ex-Rockstar Games environment artist who worked on #RDR2 and #GTAV has been exploring our vision of Middle-earth 🧙‍♂️ These are fantastic videos that really capture the fact that we're trying to do environmental art just like the pros! youtu.be/1KUQGZLrZ3Q

ArdaCraft: Bag End to Bree - Environment Artist Explores #1

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AND SO IT BEGINS!! @tearreader.bsky.social and I will be trekking through minecraft middle earth (server created by @ardacraft.bsky.social and following the steps of Frodo and Sam!! #minecraft #lotr CAN'T WAIT TO SEE YOU GUYS!!! STREAM STARTS AT 11:00 AM (PST) / 2:00 PM (EST)

PPP Moot is happening this December 18th-21st! We have a full schedule – keynotes, presentations, papers, entertainments and other digressions – from Thursday evening to Sunday noon for both in-person and online attendees!

I can’t even avoid idiot AI bros when I go to Oxford. My brother in Earendil ChatGPT is not the same thing as the steam engine.

Gondorian countryside

The Great Gate of Minas Tirith

Really quite disheartening and disappointing to see the Tolkien Society hosting a discussion on “AI in fantasy filmmaking” this year at Oxonmoot. It feels about as morally and philosophically opposed to Tolkien’s work as a talk on the benefits of deforestation.

Some recent shots - Minas Tirith, Bree, and the Dead Marshes

We've just released a 1hr37 music and nature ambience video set in the Gondorian countryside! Perfect background to writing, reading, or building fields on ArdaCraft 🌱 youtu.be/49vt6MgVIBM

Gondor | Mediterranean Nature Ambience & Music | Minecraft

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Gondor is coming along nicely.

The Blue Mountains - based on the landscapes of Scotland and Norway

The Blue Mountains getting a bit of a facelift #Minecraft

Looking eastward into the sunrise from Bree-hill, with the dim outline of Weathertop visible in the distance.

Vignettes of life in rural Gondor

The mountains of the north