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Who in Middle Earth is The most Powerful and could single handedly defeat anyone else?



iandea14
Rivendell


Sep 5 2012, 7:10am


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Who in Middle Earth is The most Powerful and could single handedly defeat anyone else?

Honestly I'm not sure, so I really want to know what everyone else thinks so I can make up my mind.


DanielLB
Immortal


Sep 5 2012, 7:26am


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Eru /

 


iandea14
Rivendell


Sep 6 2012, 7:00am


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Who else

What living being would in your opinion win, obviously Eru would win but that's like picking the Yankees, we all know you're gonna win.


DanielLB
Immortal


Sep 6 2012, 7:28am


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Melkor?

It's quite hard to choose, I suppose. Melkor was the most powerful of the Ainur, yet he was still defeated. It comes down to how one defines "powerful". Tongue


elevorn
Lorien


Sep 6 2012, 6:46pm


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and yet

Melkor feared his brother's wrath, and Tulkas whooped him a couple of times. So yes I suppose power would be the relative term here.

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Sep 7 2012, 2:20am


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Mandos.

He plays the long game: Waits for people to die and enter his halls, then has absolute say over who leaves them (if ever).

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Escapist
Gondor


Sep 7 2012, 2:29am


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Other than Eru, I think the answer is definitively no one

precisely because of the power and creativity of Eru Tongue


DanielLB
Immortal


Sep 7 2012, 7:33am


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What kind of physical strength does Eru have?

He might be able to create life, and intervene with the goings on of Arda, but who would win fistycuffs - Eru or Morgoth?


sador
Half-elven


Sep 7 2012, 9:42am


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Time. (of course) //

 

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Noel Q. von Schneiffel
Rivendell


Sep 7 2012, 4:32pm


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Still Eru

Eru has the power of Creation, so he would create huge gargantuan fists of stone for himself, as big as the biggest body Morgoth could assume (when he still could). Heck, he could throw a continent at Morgoth if he wanted. He bent Middle-earth all round at the end of the Second Age, and I suppose he did it with one hand.



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dubulous
Rohan

Sep 27 2012, 8:53pm


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Is it a battle of wills or fists?

I guess the answer depends on how we interpret the question. In a match of pure physical strenght, I could put a good deal of money on Tulkas. Even Melkor was afraid of him. But then as for other powers, he'd hardly be considered the most powerful.


Elenorflower
Gondor


Oct 7 2012, 7:28pm


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Lobelia

Sackvile Baggins. shes scary.


aruman
Rivendell


Oct 10 2012, 3:13pm


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Hard to say

Haven't read the "Silm" or any of the appendices in ages, so I can only really think of characters that are featured prominently in LOTR/Hobbit.

However, I feel one of the great things about Tolkien's works is that real "power" had little to do with physical strength.

That said, in a battle, a few very powerful beings might be:

Good: Elrond, Glorfindel, Galadriel, Bombadil, Gandalf, Eagles

Honorable mention: Beorn, Aragorn

Evil: Sauron, Balrog, Witch King, Ungoliant, Shelob, Saruman (before he lost his power, obviously), Watcher in the water, Smaug

Maybe the Mountain Giants mentioned in the Hobbit, not sure if those should be under good or evil

In the movies Elrond, Denethor, Haldir, Galadriel, and Celeborn stink.


Durin's Folk
The Shire


Oct 24 2012, 8:09pm


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Here's what you have been looking for

He or she should be impossible to kill and deadly on his attacks... therefore, besides the divinities in the world of Tolkien, the only one to posess these qualities is the King of the dead. This discussion is over.

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GothmogTheBalrog
Rivendell


Oct 28 2012, 8:36pm


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The talking purse.

Talking purse. Hands down.

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iandea14
Rivendell


Nov 7 2012, 7:01pm


Views: 1739
Aragorn

Aragron could take down the Kind Of The Dead or just release him. I'm not sure who I would pick, possible Tom Bombadil.


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Gondor

Nov 9 2012, 4:47am


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Traitor!

Deserter!

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Faenoriel
Tol Eressea


Nov 23 2012, 4:54pm


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Melkor comes closest, but not Morgoth//

 

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