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sador
Half-elven
Oct 15 2012, 9:39pm
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And perhaps also Bard's ethos of fighting until the last arrow.
This is also a battle of strategy: Smaug aims at the bridge, and is foiled because the Lake-men anticipated his plan; so he reverts to a second one, that of scattering the Men to the shores of the Lake and taking them piecemeal - which might have succeeded if not for Bard's prseverance, his hands and eyes, and the thrush.
Compare this to the tactics of the Nirnaeth, in which each side tried to provoke the other to expose itself by premature attack - and you'll see the difference. The only thing whih comes close is the sack of Nargothrond, and the trap Turin laid for Glaurung at the crossings of Teiglin.
"Bard is known as someone who forebodes gloomy things like floods and poisoned fish. Floods I can see, but poisoned fish? How and why would Bard forebode poisoned fish? Or is this just a slander against Bard?"
- Curious
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***Fire and Water*** I: Smaug Attacks
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Modtheow
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Oct 9 2012, 8:14pm
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Smaug happens
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CuriousG
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Oct 10 2012, 10:52pm
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Fall of Gondolin
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Modtheow
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Oct 11 2012, 4:45pm
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My Thoughts
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justbennett
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Oct 12 2012, 10:18pm
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The last lucky arrow
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Modtheow
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Oct 14 2012, 4:34pm
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The sequence is excellent.
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dernwyn
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Oct 13 2012, 12:23am
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Bilbo as dragon-slayer
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Modtheow
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Oct 14 2012, 4:46pm
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quite a scene
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Escapist
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Oct 13 2012, 12:52am
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Bilbo as author
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Modtheow
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Oct 14 2012, 4:57pm
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I think of Bilbo and Frodo as the writers of an original manuscript
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Escapist
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Oct 14 2012, 5:05pm
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Late answers
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sador
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Oct 14 2012, 3:11pm
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and a late question
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Modtheow
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Oct 14 2012, 5:14pm
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All of those you've said
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sador
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Oct 15 2012, 9:39pm
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