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I dont like elves, they always seem like the prissy little pretty boys to me. I would rather be a hulking orc than a little sword twirling blond-haired skinny boy. Thats just me though.

I would have voted for Ents if they were there, whenever I play a Lotr scenario (on Warcraft) I always choose ents, they are soooo my favourite. Failing that, I have chosen Gollum.

Nah it's got to be the Rohirim, you can't beat a massive calvery charge into infantry lines to get my Scottish blood pounding and making me want to go find a broadswoard and start slicing people up

[QUOTE=Macleod1701]Nah it's got to be the Rohirim, you can't beat a massive calvery charge into infantry lines to get my Scottish blood pounding and making me want to go find a broadswoard and start slicing people up[/QUOTE]

Didn't the Scots severly lack cavalary?

But anyway, I must agree, Rohan is like medieval Norway if you trade longboats with horses. It is really appealing to me too.

[QUOTE=Yeltsu]Didn't the Scots severly lack cavalary?

But anyway, I must agree, Rohan is like medieval Norway if you trade longboats with horses. It is really appealing to me too.[/QUOTE]

In the end, on the movie, Rohan's horses are the only decent battlemachine. Gondor soldiers seem pretty defenseless, and that ghost horde (aaargh! how could that guy do that to the history) is just lame.

[QUOTE=Luis Antonio]In the end, on the movie, Rohan's horses are the only decent battlemachine. Gondor soldiers seem pretty defenseless, and that ghost horde (aaargh! how could that guy do that to the history) is just lame.[/QUOTE]

Well, in the books the ghosts doesn't fight at Mineas Tirith, they only help Aragorn & Co defeating the pirate fleet, after that they are released.

[QUOTE=Yeltsu]Well, in the books the ghosts doesn't fight at Mineas Tirith, they only help Aragorn & Co defeating the pirate fleet, after that they are released.[/QUOTE]

Thats exactly why it is lame. The battle should be hopeless, and the turn of the tie would happen when rohan horses arrived, not by a bunch of ghosts. Besides, what woud three people do to sail three ships? Were is the white tree flag? Damn, I'm really mad ath the last movie.

[QUOTE=Yeltsu]Didn't the Scots severly lack cavalary?

But anyway, I must agree, Rohan is like medieval Norway if you trade longboats with horses. It is really appealing to me too.[/QUOTE]

That my dear Yeltsu is a minor technicality that I have decided to tactfully ignore. Or in other words 'I'm not listening na na na naaaa naaa'

[QUOTE=Luis Antonio]Thats exactly why it is lame. The battle should be hopeless, and the turn of the tie would happen when rohan horses arrived, not by a bunch of ghosts. Besides, what woud three people do to sail three ships? Were is the white tree flag? Damn, I'm really mad ath the last movie. [/QUOTE]
In the book Aragorn is accompanied by fellow Rangers

The films don't explain everything, exercise your brain and read the books, those are much better.

Hmmm, well... I guess I have to go for the feminist angle and pick Eowyn. She killed the Witch King, you have to respect that.

Aside from that, well, Aragorn I liked in the movies, but he was a bit arrogant in the books. Sam is my favourite hobbit. Gollum is just a great character. Legolas just looks cool in a fight.

Oh, and I agree with whoever it was who said Theoden's battle speeches are good.

The dwarf guy. Why? He couldn't see over the battlements!

One thing I never got, maybe I need to read the books because the movies left it out. When did the wizards ever do anything especially spectular magically? Whats so wonderful with the ring? I mean really, yes it makes you invisible and corrupts you. AND? All of that trouble over that? A war of epic proportions just to get a ring of invisibility back to its creator/destroy it?

Gandolf wasn't a wizard in the movies. He was a sage who smited people with his sword and his staff at the same time. Oh, and used his staff to shine light into the sky to scare of dragons and the Nazgûl to save riders outside Mineas Tirith. Big scary bad guys were beaten back en masse by a wooden flashlight?!

Anyways, I picked the dwarf. His complaints made the movies amusing for me.

I would have preferred it if all 3 movies turned into 1 thirty hour epic

In general a Gondorian like Faramir sounds good to me. Personally, I liked Legolas the best, but it was the Nazgul that looked the coolest, no doubt

What I have learned is that "Wizards" are actualy Istari. They could wipe out sauron all by them selves. I.e Saruman and Gandalf. There are many more, many died and some didn't even want to bother with middle earth at that time. But they were supposed to be forrbidden from using any uber strong magic and siding with Sauron IIRC. Just wanted to say that.


@Magrus- The ring had the power to destroy and corrupt all middle earth, If there was a ring that could destroy the location of where you were born AND your'e most favorite place in the whole world was to be destroyed by one Beings greed and Hatred, wouldn't you want to destroy it?!?


"One for the Dark Lord on his Dark throne
In the land of Mordor where the shadows lie.
One ring to rule them all, One ring to Find them,
One ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them
In the land of Mordor where the shadows lie.

[QUOTE=Darth Zenemij]What I have learned is that "Wizards" are actualy Istari. They could wipe out sauron all by them selves. I.e Saruman and Gandalf. There are many more, many died and some didn't even want to bother with middle earth at that time. But they were supposed to be forrbidden from using any uber strong magic and siding with Sauron IIRC. Just wanted to say that.


@Magrus- The ring had the power to destroy and corrupt all middle earth, If there was a ring that could destroy the location of where you were born AND your'e most favorite place in the whole world was to be destroyed by one Beings greed and Hatred, wouldn't you want to destroy it?!? [/QUOTE]

1. Thats weak. You'd except exceptionally strong beings wielding magical power of the sort to do SOMETHING with it.

2. A ring of that power, you'd think would be able to do more than turn a midget invisible yes? Destroy the world, well and good, but nothing else that it can do? How's it supposed to do that anyways? Make the antogonist invisible so he can attack and no one sees him?

That's all it did for Frodo and Bilbo because they never fully submitted to the Ring, if they did they would be one with it and Sauron. Sauron would posses them and together they would take over the world.

[QUOTE=jopperm2]That's all it did for Frodo and Bilbo because they never fully submitted to the Ring, if they did they would be one with it and Sauron. Sauron would posses them and together they would take over the world.[/QUOTE]

Yes but how? Attack of the rabid hobbits?

[QUOTE=Magrus]Yes but how? Attack of the rabid hobbits? [/QUOTE]

Yes!

[QUOTE=Magrus]Yes but how? Attack of the rabid hobbits? [/QUOTE]

A hobbit invasion... 100 no wait... 10 000 of them running down on the walls of Minas Thirith (or something like that). A sight I would like to see.