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ArdaCraft @ardacraft.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

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

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How we're building landscapes for Middle-earth

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Athrabeth Podcast @podcast.athrabeth.com · 02/04/2026

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

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ArdaCraft @ardacraft.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

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

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ArdaCraft @ardacraft.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Early tests for Mindolluin and Imloth Melui #minecraft

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ArdaCraft @ardacraft.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Wandering through the White Mountains

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Eag @psychic-eag.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Well, mirror and goose #pixelart

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Eag @psychic-eag.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

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

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ArdaCraft @ardacraft.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

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..." 🥹

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ArdaCraft @ardacraft.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

Minas Tirith looming over the countryside

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ArdaCraft @ardacraft.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

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

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

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BUCK @buckfoozle.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

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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The Prancing Pony Podcast @prancingponypod.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

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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Jude @jude.athrabeth.com · 05/09/2025

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 · 01/09/2025

The Great Gate of Minas Tirith

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ArdaCraft @ardacraft.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

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 · 14/08/2025

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

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ArdaCraft @ardacraft.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

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

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Gondor | Mediterranean Nature Ambience & Music | Minecraft

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ArdaCraft @ardacraft.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

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 · 08/06/2025

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

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ArdaCraft @ardacraft.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

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 · 26/05/2025

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

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ArdaCraft @ardacraft.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Vignettes of life in rural Gondor

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ArdaCraft @ardacraft.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Quite chuffed to have been shortlisted in the Tolkien Society Awards this year alongside some truly excellent creators - @digitaltolkien.com @podcast.athrabeth.com @teawithtolkien.bsky.social and Jordan Rannells of 'An Unexpected Soundscape'💙 www.tolkiensociety.org/2025/04/vote...

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ArdaCraft @ardacraft.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Looking south towards the Emyn Muil

A modded version of Minecraft - landscape shot

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The Rest Is History @theresthistory.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

🚨NEW EPISODE🚨 💥The Road To 1066: Anglo-Saxon Apocalypse💥 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿The Norman Conquest was England’s great turning point, but its origins stretch back nearly a century before. A succession crisis in 975 AD, the return of the Vikings, and a desperate king’s bloody massacre all set the stage for 1066...

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Having a hard time getting over a line in Rings of Power where Sauron tells soldiers to "prepare for ground assault." Like, what other kind of assault were they preparing for? Orcish air assault? (The line is stolen from The Empire Strikes Back, word for word, where it makes a lot more sense).

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ArdaCraft @ardacraft.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

A few recent WIP landscape shots from around Middle-earth

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ArdaCraft @ardacraft.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Hanging out with the lads in Moria

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

This week on the blog! Who needs siege camps? We continue our look at the hot mess that is Rings of Power's Siege of Eregion. Adar's siege works are a jumbled, useless mess that makes his army more vulnerable, not less: but what would useful siege works look like? acoup.blog/2025/02/28/c...

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Collections: The Siege of Eregion, Part II: What Siege Camp?

This is the second part of our [your guess is as good as mine] part series looking at the Siege of Eregion from the second season of Amazon’s Rings of Power. Last week, we saw how the logisti…

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ArdaCraft @ardacraft.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Mist lies over the Marish, with Brandy Hall rising in the background.

An image of the Marish, a region in the east of the Shire, on the ArdaCraft Minecraft server. Brandy Hall lies in the background. The posts marking Bucklebury Ferry can also be seen.

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ArdaCraft @ardacraft.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Last year we presented our work live to @tolkiensociety.org in Oxford - and now we can make that talk available to the public! Thank you to everyone who attended live and online - it was a fantastic experience. youtu.be/oZ_PdVkonGg

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ArdaCraft @ardacraft.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

"I think in his heart, Frodo is still in love with the Shire… The woods, the fields… the little rivers…"

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ArdaCraft @ardacraft.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

"...a green hill thronged with mallorn-trees taller than any they had yet seen. Their height could not be guessed, but they stood up in the twilight like living towers. In their many-tiered branches amid their ever-moving leaves countless lights were gleaming, green and gold and silver..."

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ArdaCraft @ardacraft.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

An interactive version of our Middle-earth biome map has just launched! This tool allows you to inspect any area of Middle-earth and get a detailed list of the plant species that would occur in each area, along with a bunch of reference pictures. www.micahvanderlugt.com/middle-earth...

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ArdaCraft @ardacraft.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

We’re now able to see a few orders of magnitude further across Middle-earth than was ever previously possible - here’s how that looks:

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