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------0.362------ Advancing on the "Three Towers"! Done with Minas Morgul ;)
Based on Minas Morgul https://www.nexusmods.com/oblivion/mods/29331 by Youpime, with his leave to "use the mods as you wish for your version of MERP."
I mixed his outside with the original setting in O-MERP, but eventually had to put it into a separate Interior cell as the framerate was dropping too much with all the world around.
I kept all his interior cells, but modified them, usually replacing interior teleport doors by normal doors or open passages. I added some rooms, most notably for the Houses of Lamentation, the surface of which increased by 35%.
I populated ALL the interior cells and the outside, which were empty except from the Lich Factory. Now Minas Morgul has guard patrolling the walls and the rooms, Nazguls lurking around, the Witch King inside his lair, Guests and Entertainers for the Houses of Lamentation, etc. ;)
Some loot too, which CANNOT be found anywhere else in O-MERP.
Orthanc offered access to a Spellmaking Altar… in Minas Morgul you'll find an Enchanting Altar! Not much of use in O-MERP, but fun :)
You can reach the "new" Minas Morgul in the same way as the initial one: walking on the bridge. There is a teleport door which will bring you there (and back again).
You ALSO have Brad-Dur from the same Youpime, though I did not finish it yet. It is enriched from the original mod, which had yet a decent population :) You can access it either by walking all the way through Mordor, or from a 'secret' door in Minas Morgul.
The outside is very nice and different from the O-MERP version, and installed into its own separate world. I enriched the "Eye" up there, but you'll need to push the LOD distance to see it from the bridge down there.
Eventually I added 4 Nazguls on horse patrolling the roads between Bree (west), Weathetop and the Last Bridge.

BUG FIX - at some point the Hole for the Harfoot Sisters was deleted… Don't ask how. It is reached through the Blue Round door by the fields at Hobbiton. Also for the 3rd time (at least) the 2nd bench in Bilbo's kitchen had lost its NIF…

PROBLEMS - seemingly solved. I had SEVERE crashes from the CS when trying to make the road from Bree to Weathertop and the Last Bridge. About impossible… the CS crashed as soon as I clicked anywhere in the render window. Eventually I reduced the graphics parameters of the CS (LOD and so on), and it stopped crashing! At least no more than usual.
Also had SEVERE in-game crashes, to the point it was about impossible to use :(( It happened when strolling outside, most notably between Bree and the Last Bridge. Also odd behaviors, such as the land which seemed not to bear the weight of the player, by places.
Eventually I reduced the graphics parameters from MERP Launcher… and it worked!!!!

ALL the NPCs in there have a specific schedule which can be viewed as a (poor) tentative as a motion picture ;)
So don't be happy with just a quick look! Go back at different times…

Recommended complimentary add-ons:
-any ‘Stark Reality’ mods, males and females.
You may want to use these as I tweaked a bit some of the textures… (load them BEFORE applying 0362):
https://www.nexusmods.com/oblivion/mods/27909
https://www.nexusmods.com/oblivion/mods/13356
-grasses of middle earth https://www.nexusmods.com/oblivion/mods/49766. Not all botanically accurate, but nice.
-Natural Environments from https://www.nexusmods.com/oblivion/mods/18305, which adds insects and birds all over the (elsewhere empty) O-MERP landscape.
-Lothlorien Forest https://www.nexusmods.com/oblivion/mods/50228, just for the sight.

VISITING - Not even Gandalf nor Elrond would come knocking at Minas Morgul main door… so with a mere Hobbit, how would it be possible to enjoy the sights?
Well, you can try Sneaking, but there is not enough room for this… and too much patrolling. Now, if you would adopt some disguise, it IS possible :)
If you visited Orthanc fully and did the 2 quests there, you have yet two ways to visit Minas Morgul ;)
If not, explore (cautiously) the options on the Bridge, and also check at the door.
Btw, if you are allowed as a Visitor, don't expect to be able to pick anything (not much, at any rate). You'll have to do it the Hard Way ;)