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Minecraft build server recreating the world of J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth. Proud users of the Conquest Reforged mod. https://linktr.ee/ardacraft

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ArdaCraft @ardacraft.bsky.social · Nov 15

We've released a video celebrating ten years of our project - check it out!

youtu.be/3Aq0KJMo4RA

Ten years of building Middle-earth in Minecraft.

YouTube video by ArdaCraft

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BUCK @buckfoozle.bsky.social · 11d

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)

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prancingponypod.bsky.social @prancingponypod.bsky.social · 23d

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!

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ArdaCraft @ardacraft.bsky.social · 23d

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ArdaCraft @ardacraft.bsky.social · Sep 12

It’s only lembas if it’s produced in the Naith region of Lórien, otherwise it’s just sparkling waybread

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Jude @jude.athrabeth.com · Sep 5

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.

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ArdaCraft @ardacraft.bsky.social · Sep 5

We were worried it was going to be that bad yeah

ArdaCraft @ardacraft.bsky.social · Sep 2

Gondorian countryside

A Mediterranean countryside scene. Baked dirt and scrubby plants in the foreground, looking over fields towards a ruined aqueduct

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ArdaCraft @ardacraft.bsky.social · Sep 1

The Great Gate of Minas Tirith

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ArdaCraft @ardacraft.bsky.social · Aug 26

Only available to attendees unfortunately

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ArdaCraft @ardacraft.bsky.social · Aug 25

@blu3r4d0n.shutdown.network reposting here - it’s pretty clearly about generative AI and they even propose making some live at the event

ArdaCraft @ardacraft.bsky.social · Aug 25

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ArdaCraft @ardacraft.bsky.social · Aug 25

Sadly it’s very much “we are going to do this and we’re even going to make some Tolkien-related AI art live at the event”

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ArdaCraft @ardacraft.bsky.social · Aug 24

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.

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ArdaCraft @ardacraft.bsky.social · Aug 13

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

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ArdaCraft @ardacraft.bsky.social · Jul 13

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

YouTube video by ArdaCraft

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ArdaCraft @ardacraft.bsky.social · Jul 7

Gondor is coming along nicely.

A field in Gondor with Minas Tirith and Mindolluin in the background

A ship docked alongside a town on the River Anduin

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ArdaCraft @ardacraft.bsky.social · Jun 8

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

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ArdaCraft @ardacraft.bsky.social · Jun 5

The Blue Mountains getting a bit of a facelift

#Minecraft

An image of the Blue Mountains from the ArdaCraft project

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ArdaCraft @ardacraft.bsky.social · May 28

At that point we can query whether this is literally true or if it comes from the bias of Gondorian historians ;)

Lifespan is a pretty good proxy for veneration of Eru, righteousness, etc. The later Númenórean gu kings were every bit as “blood pure” but their lifespan reduced nevertheless

ArdaCraft @ardacraft.bsky.social · May 28

We see this with Aragorn, where his lifespan far exceeds that of his more recent ancestors. He seems to be somehow “more Númenórean” and I don’t think it’s about blood purity but rather about deeds/fate

ArdaCraft @ardacraft.bsky.social · May 28

The Kinstrife in Gondor was a civil war kicked off because some of the old Númenórean nobility were so racist that they couldn’t abide their king being married to one of “lesser race”. But they ended up losing and were explicitly the Not Good Side.