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Hobbity Hobbit
Lorien
Jun 25 2015, 5:33pm
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Pouring Molten Metals on dragons/enemies is actually canon...
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In the Fall of Gondolin, they poured Molten Metal on Morgoth's armies, which means that the Forge Scene is both symbolic and similar to other battles in Middle-Earth.
"Then the engines and the catapults of the king poured darts and boulders and molten metals on those ruthless beasts, and {their hollow bellies clanged} they screamed beneath the buffeting, yet it availed not, for they might not be broken, and the fires rolled off them. Then {were} from the topmost {opened about their middles, and} an innumerable host of the Or[k]s, the goblins of hatred, poured {therefrom} into the breach;"
"As the snowflakes cover my fallen brothers,
I will say this last goodbye."
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Meneldor
Valinor
Jun 25 2015, 6:09pm
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I've seen references to molten lead
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defending castles in medieval siege warfare. Not very nice.
They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters, these see the works of the Lord, and His wonders in the deep. -Psalm 107
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geordie
Tol Eressea
Jun 25 2015, 8:22pm
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One of the worst was boiling sand -
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- there was a tunnel between two gates in many medieval castles, with 'murder holes' in the roof. Boiling oil, or lead, were poured
onto the unfortunates below. But boiling sand was used too; it got down the necks of the soldiers' clothes; very effective agains mail-shirts.
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