A skilled Elden Ring player managed to recreate Gollum from Lord of the Rings using the title’s in-game character creation system. The Lord of the Rings: Gollum was not a hit, but it seems that at least players can use the game’s main character on the much more successful Elden Ring if they are crafty enough.
Elden Ring was originally launched in 2022, and it’s one of the biggest hits ever put out by FromSoftware, having sold over 20 million copies so far. By featuring an open world that takes countless hours to explore, Elden Ring may be a challenging game, but size and difficulty are far from the only charms. Elden Ring can also offer players a space for self-expression via the game’s character creation engine. While not everyone people will spend much time on it before jumping into exploration, the system is fairly robust and permits the creation of several great-looking characters, as long as players have enough patience and skill.
Now, one gamer took a step forward and decided to recreate Gollum from The Lord of the Rings in Elden Ring. SoulfearicAcid shared their creation on Reddit, and it looks pretty good, as they recreated the famous character with uncanny accuracy using the many settings of the Elden Ring character creation system.
This is not the first time that SoulfearicAcid has created an amazing character using Elden Ring. Previously, the gamer also made an impressive version of Professor Garlick from Hogwarts Legacy, as well as other characters such as the protagonist of Doom.
Many users in the comments of the post compared SoulfearicAcid’s creation to the one in The Lord of the Rings: Gollum, a game that was greatly criticized upon release. For instance, one user commented that this version of Gollum actually looks better than the one featured in the new Gollum game. Another gamer was also amazed that someone could use the character creation system to build something as good or even better than an entire studio.
Recreating famous characters in Elden Ring is something that the community loves to do. For instance, one Elden Ring gamer recreated Tyrion Lannister from Game of Thrones some time ago. While it’s somewhat impossible to recreate a human face right to the last detail, the similarity was fairly striking, as the model really looked like Peter Dinklage, the actor who plays Tyrion in the popular HBO series, including even the presence of some of the scars that Tyrion has. It will be interesting to see what other gamers create in the weeks ahead.
Elden Ring is available now for PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S.