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Nira
Lorien


Dec 20 2014, 10:41pm

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Thank you! [In reply to] Can't Post

 

"Why, to think of it, we're in the same tale still! It's going on. Don't the great tales never end?" -Samwise


Miss-Merriweather
Bree

Dec 20 2014, 11:38pm

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Three dead Durins in a row [In reply to] Can't Post

is definitely a worst case scenario for all dwarves.
Line of Durin over and out, remember...?
And a bit of snivelling in the distance is all we get?
Balin 's (strangely composed) contemplation that Thorin "will pass into legend" is nowhere near a fitting end to this part of the story.
Unsure


Dame Ioreth
Tol Eressea


Dec 21 2014, 6:44am

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credits [In reply to] Can't Post

because that meant it was over. Unsure



Where there's life there's hope, and need of vittles.
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings






AshNazg
Gondor


Dec 21 2014, 11:02am

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I hated this line - "Orcs. No more than a hundred." "We'll handle it, go'" [In reply to] Can't Post

Really?? Two vs a hundred? The orcs are so useless and nonthreatening in these films, it's laughable.

Did you notice the big line-up of armoured trolls that just get shot down in seconds by arrows? Why did they not do that in RotK?


BlackFox
Half-elven


Dec 21 2014, 1:19pm

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Tiny correction [In reply to] Can't Post

It was goblin mercenaries, not orcs.



BalrogTrainer
Rivendell

Dec 21 2014, 2:32pm

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Yes. [In reply to] Can't Post

I was glad to see the Goblins of AUJ made some sort of appearance in the battle -- particularly since in the book the death of the Great Goblin was one of the main motivations for entering the battle in the first place. Granted, PJ chose not to convert those Goblins into Orcs for these movies, but rather make them a sort of sub-Orc class.


peterLF
Rivendell

Dec 22 2014, 1:57am

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a couple of things [In reply to] Can't Post

- first - I'm not a fan of how Smaug, the baddest dragon in all of literature, is dead within 5 minutes of the film. Same thing with the white council. Sauron out of the picture by the 15-minute mark.
- second - a 400 pound orc with army plates wouldn't float.

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