: Mostly stuck to the items because those are a bit more inexplicable; IIRC
: the monsters are explicitly created by the W'rk.
: Hadn't thought of any of them being memories of creatures from Lh'owon;
: it's entirely possible. Zombies and Ghasts might be mockeries of the
: humans (or worse, the Jjaro, if one theorizes that they were similar or
: identical to humans); maybe Sentinels, too.
: Looking at the Big Blue Meanies--well, they're dark blue, and their arms are
: tipped with shiny green things that they fire from. S'pht'Kr?
Well, shucks, Hamish noticed this when he made up Where Giants Have Fallen. ;-)
As for the Alien Pipes and M1 Enforcers, i suspect that one was entirely due to Reginald DuJour taking inspiration from Colin Brent, or something like that.
We should all know that they were stolen from Thorin, King Under the Mountain: Hence the description that they reminded you of a book you read as a child. ;-)
I am not too certain with the S'pht'Kr Defenders, however. It's always possible that the god knew of their exoskeletons, but i don't think they ever wore those things on Lh'owon. That's conjecture from me, and i have little to support it.