Despite being a tonally dark narrative, Elden Ring is perhaps a bit more optimistic than The Lord Of The Rings ** when it comes to the notion of wielding power without being corrupted by it, since many of the endings where the Tarnished protagonist becomes Elden Lord are optimistic in tone. Still, the tragic fates of Queen Marika, Rykard, Godrick, Gideon Ofnir, and Tarnished PC in the Lord Of Frenzied Flame finale, the worst Elden Ring ** ending of all , https://eldenringworld.com/articles/my-epic-fight-with-caligo-mastering-the-nightlord-in-elden-ring-nightreign.html illustrate full well how absolute power and a lack of wisdom can chain souls towards paths of folly and e

Hidetaka Miyazaki, FromSoftware president and director of Elden Ring , and George R.R. Martin, the fantasy author hired to create the game's mythical foundation, were likely both aware comparisons would be drawn between Elden Ring and its inspiration, LOTR , based on their titles alone. Rather than being daunted, however, these two creative luminaries were likely inspired to create a brand new fantasy setting full of dark, strange, and decidedly non-Tolkien-esque world-building details. The shattered Elden Ring , for instance, is not a physical artifact of power, but an ethereal magical c0de that imposes a set of natural laws over reality. The various non-human species populating the Lands Between – chimeric Demi-Humans and Misbegotten, Omens, Onyx Lords, and Albinaurics – are wildly different from the elves, dwarves, and hobbits populating Tolkien's Middle-earth. In place of a story about the forces of good fighting against once-noble powers corrupted by their pride and hubris (a very Christian tale inspired by Tolkien's devout Catholic beliefs), Elden Ring's often regretful story is a Darwinian battle of ideals between different factions, visionaries, and cosmic gods who want to change the world to fit their principles. And yet, though they may differ in big ways, Elden Ring and The Lords of the Rings are epics akin to each other in small, yet meaningful w

Found in Caria Manor behind a locked door, the Sword of Night and Flame is one of the most powerful and flexible weapons available in the late game of Elden Ring. The sword scales with intelligence, faith, strength, and dexterity, providing it with many ways to build towards its us

This challenging boss can be found at Miquella's Haligtree in the Haligtree Roots . After multiple and inevitable failed attempts, the boss will drop Malenia's Great Rune upon death. This can be activated at the Isolated Divine Tower , accessible through the waygate from the Divine bri

Both the Ancestor Spirit and Regal Ancestor Spirit are two massive skeleton deer bosses. They are very pretty, and the music to their fight is heartbreaking and beautiful. Honestly, these two do not need to be killed because it is possible to find good gear and spells in Elden Ring without defeating a single b

Phantom Slash has a simple move-set. The initial attack is a lung forward that closes the distance between the player and the target. The follow-up attack is a strike downwards. But the phantom amplifies this skill. When the player uses this skill, a phantom of the character appears and attacks the player. So, when the initial lunge forward is triggered, the phantom attacks first and the character follows it. The phantom is the best part of this Ash of War in Elden Ring because not only do they use the player character’s weapon, but any buffs the player applies to their weapon are also used by the phan

Rennala is a boss with one of the saddest backstories. Once she was Queen of the Carian Royals, who ruled the Academy of Raya Lucaria, and wife to Radagon. Together, Rennala and Radagon had three children. Lord of Elden Ring ’s Volcano Manor, Praetor Rykard , General Radahn, and Lunar Princess Ranni. But Radagon left Rennala and married Marika; Rennala was left with a broken heart. Then Radagon and her children have all perished in some way, and then her academy turned on her, locking her away in the grand libr

These days, it's hard to write a fantasy story or design a fantasy RPG not influenced by (or a reaction against) The Lord of the Rings and its legendarium. When J.R.R. Tolkien, a philologist and academic by trade, published the three volumes of The Lord Of The Rings trilogy in the late 1940s, he upped the ante for fantasy world-building by creating a world with unique creation myth, a history filled with ages of heroic tragedies (inspired by epic poems such as the Anglo-Saxon Beowulf or the Finnish Kalevala ), __ and even constructed new languages and writing systems for the species and cultures of his Middle-earth setting. The general premise of Tolkien's The Lord Of The Rings - a world haunted by the ruins of previous ages, populated by humans, elves, dwarves, and halflings who fight a war of resistance against a totalitarian dark lord - inspired the character creation rules of Dungeons & Dragons _ , which then went on to inspire a host of epic fantasy novels and computer RPGs like _The Elder Scrolls (another famous franchise Elden Ring developers likely wanted to distinguish their game fr