Editor's Note by Mapthor
Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to The MCME Times. Do you guys like events? Well I sure hope so because you’re gonna get a lot of them over the coming weeks. Regardless of Maski’s chicken hunt and Build Battles this past fortnight, Easter Events are on the way and ready to hatch! We got an Easter Egg hunt, another MCME cookoff, and Super is throwing his hat into the ring with a parkour race. The past few years I’ve been making parkour races, so I’m really excited to see what you come up with . In the words of the Senate himself: “we will watch your career with great interest.”

Happy Sailing,
Mapthor


Moria – Lead: @DoctorDaom | In Progress
Report by aVeryAngryBadger

The First Hall of Moria East Gate has been pasted into main world and the rp region has been updated, so the Dimril Dale is now in rp d. We’re just waiting on a resource pack update and it’s goodbye cheesy snow! Go say farewell to it while you can. Look out for jobs soon. Daom has also been busy beavering away in West Gate, yeeting this, updating that, repurposing those, etc. Ask him for a tour!





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This week we have another round of amazing builds and Media posts. We only choose from the best every time, so hard work does pay off. Sometimes it can get competitive and that is what will win a place here. Please give a warm welcome to this Times, winners of this week.

Media Winners

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Themed Build Winners
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Judged by: aVeryAngryBadger


Caradhras & the Redhorn Pass
"Caradhras was called the Cruel, and had an ill name long years ago, when rumour of Sauron had not been heard in these lands."
― Gimli in The Fellowship of the Ring, "The Ring Goes South"

Caradhras is the tallest and northernmost of the three Mountains of Moria, beneath which the Dwarven Kingdom of Khazad-dûm was built. As with many of Tolkien’s locations, this mountain was not restricted to one name only: it was known as Redhorn in the common tongue from “caran” (red), and “ras” (horn) in Sindarin. The Khuzdul translation is Barazinbar. The Redhorn Pass is one of the few routes over the Misty Mountains, offering an alternative to the dark passage through abandoned Moria. When travelling eastwards, one would come to a number of treacherous narrow areas with sheer cliffs on one side, before descending down into the Dimrill Dale on the eastern side of the mountains.

The Redhorn Pass features a number of times in the legendarium: the Stoors cross via this pass to reach the lands of Eriador from their homes in the Anduin Vale; Celebrían, the wife of Elrond, was captured by orcs here and tortured before being rescued by her sons; and the Fellowship famously try to cross in winter but were defeated by the weather, or perhaps the ill will of the Mountain. Caradhras likely features influence from Tolkien’s trip to Switzerland and the glacial horns he saw there. Horns are sharp-peaked mountains with sheer sides, common in the Alps. Tolkien also describes the peak of Caradhras as being: “…a mighty peak, tipped with snow like silver, but with sheer naked sides, dull red as if stained with blood.”



This Week's Question:
Who was able to make successful, secret passage of the Redhorn Pass prior to the attempt by the Fellowship?


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