LotR is based on Scandinavian lore. So is Skyrim.

Whiterun looks alot like Rohan..

Again, that's early pre/early medieval Nordic, not LOTR. Rohan is just a direct rip from that era...nothing specifically 'LOTR' with that.

Oh yeah, I also found that one

You did not, but alot of people do. They just go "lol TES copied LOTR. LOTR YAAAAY!" and it gets annoying, and I'm sure the writers at BGS that spend thousands of hours coming up with all of this totally love that...

The only reason I see it having more intersections, is because (This will sound weird) it is more realistic. Like WoW, that has stuff in it that is absurd and crazy and silly and weird. TES has none of that. If you ignore the supernatural occurances, such as magic and the whole thing with gods and whatnot, it's a very realistic down to Earth, believable setting. Most other fantasies are not at all. They are absolutely out there, and honestly I prefer it more drawn back like TES.


This another another reason they are so similiar. WoW is based on NOTHING real, really. Whereas both TES and LOTR are based on real Nordic/Scandanavian places, occurances and stories. So the similarities are not between TES and what Tolkein created, but really TES and what Tolkein took from history. Egro my point, TES really doesn't copy Tolkein very much at all. They don't have gnomes, or dwarves (Though the Dwemers are called 'dwarves' but I'm not sure of their similiarities), or alot of other 'cliche' fantasy stuff that other game lazily directly copy...

At least one Thalmor elf has a Sindarin name. Means star-woman or some such.

Falmers, of course.

there's definitely tolkein influence but thats not a bad thing...what i thought was funny was the fable influences. I scoffed when i saw the wall mounts that look very similar to the mounts in fable. I was disappointed that you cant mound heads yet i see all types of heads mounted elswhere in game.

copy crappy fable and do a worse job? bad show bethesda

Like other people already said, Whiterun looks a lot like Edoras, also the Gildergreen is a reference to the White Tree of Gondor.