Middle-Earth Mod Hiring... Thread

The Middle-Earth Mod for Morrowind is hiring new staff positions this month.

For more information, visit our mod profile here.

All positions are being hired for including:

Concept Artist
Texture Artist
3D Animation Artist (3D Studio Max 4.2 / Morrowind TES:CS)
3D Modeller (3D Studio Max)
Worldbuilder
Audio FX Artist
Music Composer
Quest Builder
Tolkien Lore Researcher
Scripter
Website Admin
Documentation Specialist
etc

-- Daerk

- Edited By Daerk On Wed 30th, Jul 2003 @ 1:14:34pm

Hey man im a real big fan of morrowind and all the middle earth stuff, but are there mapping utilities for morrowind? and are they easy because i map and id like to help.

OH RIGHT You said world builder, that would be what i do, they are called maps.

Morrowind comes with an editor that allows you to change anything in the game.

-- Daerk

Awrighty. Can I point you towards The Legalities of Modding. Unless you have permission I strongly recommend you disassociate yourself with Middle Earth, Lord of the Rings or anything else owned by Tolkien Enterprises Inc.

Cause they'll come and slap yo ass till you don't remeber where middle earth is

I have to say, I'm suprised the project hasn't been pissed all over yet. Same with U9: Redemption. Ultima and Middle Earth are the kind of franchises that compainies are *very* protective of.

Incidentally Wizards' Islands are recruiting for, well, sweet jack all, though another animator might be nice, and maybe someone with a lot of webspace

jacksonj04 wrote: Awrighty. Can I point you towards The Legalities of Modding. Unless you have permission I strongly recommend you disassociate yourself with Middle Earth, Lord of the Rings or anything else owned by Tolkien Enterprises Inc.

jacksonj04 wrote: I won't pretend to be a lawyer, or even to know all the details of what I'm talking about.

My lawyers (on retainer) researched all aspects of my project before I started it. I don't get involved with anything such as this without legal consultation. The Middle-Earth Mod for Morrowind uses public license granted by the Tolkien Estate for fan-creations based on the Middle-Earth/LotR/Arda/etc content copyrighted by the Tolkien Estate. It's freely available, fan-based, not-for-profit, and doesn't follow any publications of the Tolkien Estate. It's based in the same world and setting, but not in any time/storyline that is documented beyond brief appendix entries for timeline. I've been informed by my family lawyers that i'm perfectly in the clear as long as certain rules are maintained and certain lines not crossed over.

In short, thanks for the concern, we need more concerned and knowledgeable individuals in the mod community, and we've had that covered since before day one of the development.

-- Daerk

YES! FINALLY!

Congratulations on being the first modder I know of to actually check the legal side. If there's a fan creations licence then you're fine, so w00t to that and good luck with the mod.

Daerk wrote:

jacksonj04 wrote: Awrighty. Can I point you towards The Legalities of Modding. Unless you have permission I strongly recommend you disassociate yourself with Middle Earth, Lord of the Rings or anything else owned by Tolkien Enterprises Inc.

jacksonj04 wrote: I won't pretend to be a lawyer, or even to know all the details of what I'm talking about.

My lawyers (on retainer) researched all aspects of my project before I started it. I don't get involved with anything such as this without legal consultation. The Middle-Earth Mod for Morrowind uses public license granted by the Tolkien Estate for fan-creations based on the Middle-Earth/LotR/Arda/etc content copyrighted by the Tolkien Estate. It's freely available, fan-based, not-for-profit, and doesn't follow any publications of the Tolkien Estate. It's based in the same world and setting, but not in any time/storyline that is documented beyond brief appendix entries for timeline. I've been informed by my family lawyers that i'm perfectly in the clear as long as certain rules are maintained and certain lines not crossed over.

In short, thanks for the concern, we need more concerned and knowledgeable individuals in the mod community, and we've had that covered since before day one of the development.

-- Daerk

Sounds like a good way to shut the idiots up about 'Where's Gandalf' and 'Why can't I find the Ring Of Power'.

lol... This is why i decided to make my own mod, and not base it off something.. You just don't get legal hassle by makin something from your own mind.... Well, then again, i DO have nothing but stolen sounds... lol.. gotta fix that one..