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LOTR: The Two Towers
Let's try to mash all the LOTR submissions into one. Reviews: comingsoon.net,
Empire Online (UK), CNN, Slate, Salon. The LA Times has a story about animating Gollum which we can't link to because it requires registration. Lord Satri writes "Ents, elves and mages being on every orc's lips, new versions of
Tales Of
Middle-Earth are available. It is an open source, one
player and online
multiplayer game. It is ported
to many OS's. Yeah, no terrific graphics, but the game is
really worthwhile. It is based on the famous roguelike Angband
(variants here). Faithful to Tolkien's writings."
LOTR DESERVES its own Logo/Icon
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Parent already modded up to five, but need more moderation to make the point.
Repeat! LOTR DESERVES its own Logo/Icon
Yeah...that...mod me up now
VOLCANOES ARE OPEN ON THE TOP. Also, you can't defend the top of a volcano (it's kinda hot). Therefore the One Ring could be airdropped from 35,000 feet or more, without ever getting near ground defenses.
In book 3, the Eagles make the trip from the Black Gate to Mount Doom in the time it takes for Frodo to run a few feet, realize he was going to be crushed by lava, and be picked up. About five minutes. This means they could cross the entire world in about an hour (I've calculated it using a ruler and the map provided). This gives any mass attack of eagles the instant element of suprise. No ground forces could be assembled in time.
One elven archer, Legolas, singlehandedly dismounted a Nazgul in book 2 with a single arrow, in the dark. Therefore 10,000 elven archers on eagleback would dismount the nine in under a second, plunging them to the earth.
Nazgul fly above the range of even the most skilled elven archers during the siege of Gondor. Therefore the eagles are likewise immune to all ground based weaponry.
In book 3, someone wears the One in Mount Doom, alerting Sauron. His only response is to send the Nazgul. Therefore, he has no magick that he can work at a distance. Therefore only the Nazgul could be summoned to stop an eagle attack.
The Nazgul can't sense the One Ring unless someone's wearing it. No one's wearing it. It's glued to a rat, dangling from a rope carried at a safe (non-tempting) distance by the swiftest of eagles. Therefore no approach of an eagle army would set off any ring-detection.
The crows would see the 10k eagles coming, and would summon the Nazgul. The Nazgul might even get there in time, but considering they're scattered all over tarnation looking for the Ring, and they don't even know what the eagles have, and considering the eagles can crush them in under a second, it's irrelevant.
Nice try though. Sadly, the only logical conclusion is that Gandalf was suicidal.
VOLCANOES ARE OPEN ON THE TOP. Also, you can't defend the top of a volcano (it's kinda hot). Therefore the One Ring could be airdropped from 35,000 feet or more, without ever getting near ground defenses.
In book 3, the Eagles make the trip from the Black Gate to Mount Doom in the time it takes for Frodo to run a few feet, realize he was going to be crushed by lava, and be picked up. About five minutes. This means they could cross the entire world in about an hour (I've calculated it using a ruler and the map provided). This gives any mass attack of eagles the instant element of suprise. No ground forces could be assembled in time.
One elven archer, Legolas, singlehandedly dismounted a Nazgul in book 2 with a single arrow, in the dark. Therefore 10,000 elven archers on eagleback would dismount the nine in under a second, plunging them to the earth.
Nazgul fly above the range of even the most skilled elven archers during the siege of Gondor. Therefore the eagles are likewise immune to all ground based weaponry.
In book 3, someone wears the One in Mount Doom, alerting Sauron. His only response is to send the Nazgul. Therefore, he has no magick that he can work at a distance. Therefore only the Nazgul could be summoned to stop an eagle attack.
The Nazgul can't sense the One Ring unless someone's wearing it. No one's wearing it. It's glued to a rat, dangling from a rope carried at a safe (non-tempting) distance by the swiftest of eagles. Therefore no approach of an eagle army would set off any ring-detection.
The crows would see the 10k eagles coming, and would summon the Nazgul. The Nazgul might even get there in time, but considering they're scattered all over tarnation looking for the Ring, and they don't even know what the eagles have, and considering the eagles can crush them in under a second, it's irrelevant.
Nice try though. Sadly, the only logical conclusion is that Gandalf was suicidal.