As long as you could use GMAX to design the winged Nazgul, or Gwaihir the Windlord to fly over it!

I would personally love to fly over Gondor or Mordor.  For that matter, Lothlorien or Rivendell too.  The Shire would be great...

What?  You wouldn't want to fly from Hobbiton Muni (KHBT) to Rivendell Intl (KRVD) with a stopover at Bree (KBRE)?

LMAO!!  Okay, so where do we put this place?  New Zealand is still my top choice, for pretty obvious reasons, but its still too small.  Something the size of Australia would be better, but it doesn't have enough native terrain types to do this.

I suppose it could just have everything viewed in the movies, just a little closer together. ???

Okay, so lets spread Middle Earth around the real Earth:

The Shire goes in New Zealand.

Mordor could end up in either Australia or Russia (I'll have to take a tour).

Rivendell can sit in a South American rainforest.

I'm not sure about Bree, but as its not much to look at anyway, I think we can skip it for now.

Helm's Deep (what I would really like to see) might be somewhere in the midwestern US, with all its sweeping, open plains.

Its been almost six months since I've seen either of the movies or read any of the books, so tell me what areas I have missed.

Tell you what, if you'll get the actual terrain mesh stuff together, I'll do what I can with the buildings and such.  Whadaya think?

HEHE!!  We're in the same boat, man!  I know jack about scenery design, but I know that if this is to be done, the basic terrain mesh of the sim would have to be drastically altered, or we would have to at least spend a mass amount of time scouting out the right spots!

Okay, since I'm not very good at putting the names of the places in LOTR with the actual scenes in the movie, or the parts in the book, why don't you give me a list of the names with approximate places I can find the visuals in Fellowship.  I have it on DVD and can scan through it to find what we need.  After that, I'll start scouting the world for good spots for each.

Then later, we'll see what you DO know about Gmax, and go from there.

I would say you're definitly not reading too much into it.  Tolkien based Middle-Earth on Great Britain.

The best two maps I can find of Middle-Earth are here:

http://www.taylorcustom.com/localinks/mearth/mearthmap.html

and a clickable version here:

http://www.artbyforster.com/middle-earth/map-01.html

I think that until I actually learn scenery design I would be useless.  However, without bragging or trying to make myself seem important, I probably know Tolkien better than anyone who visits these forums.  I have been a devoted fan of the books since high school.  The Silmarillion maps are ok, but it is actually only loosely connected with the events in the The Lord of the Rings.  It is based on it and actually is an older work because Tolkien worked on it periodically his entire life.  However, they do not match up completely with the later series and some of the events and locations are totally off.

grizzled?  There's a hell of a term...

Right.  I've read the SDK's.  I've searched the internet.  I've sat quietly and cried tears of frustration whilst rocking back and forth banging my head against a wall and I still cannot fathom how you write DEM data that the flight sim can understand.

I was planning on starting small and building the Tower of Isengard and putting it in Chicago for Pippin.  I was going to put a Mordor mountain range in the outback. 

ie

mmmmmmmmmmm
m---------m---m
m---v----m---m
m-------------m
m-------------
m-------------
m-------------
mmmmm-------
m-------------
m---------------mmmm
m--------------mm
m-------------mm
mmmmmmmmmm

Where M = Mountains and v=Mount Doom -=flatish

I can't, it is currently completely beyond me.  I've no idea where to even start.

Please will someone help me before I need sectioning under the Mental Health Act as a danger to myself and others.

Will

PS BIBBLE!!!

Also the scenery design tools are fairly easy to learn most are avalible here at Simviation. FSDS can design and built scenery macros, as well as aircraft.

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They may be fairly easy to learn but I'm a total ******* when it comes to scenery.....

Will

At the beginning or end of a lot of the old books there are maps. But they are small and in Black and white but they give you a good idea of places.

IS it maybe possible to create a large island way out in the pacific and build there???>?[color=Orange][/color]

THAT would be the best ides then

Okay, I want to know how large the MAIN continent of Middle Earth is.

What maps should I use? (I've found about five or six so far that don't match up)