Comments on: LOTR Online: Hitting On The High Elves

By: Cheesehawk

Cheesehawk — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 07:54:18 +0000

Oh yea, and the idea of giving the ring to Bombadil was mentioned in the Council of Elrond, but dismissed as Bombadil had no interest in the affairs of middle-earth and would probably just throw it away or forget about it, thereby keeping Sauron alive and power intact.

By: Cheesehawk

Cheesehawk — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 07:52:13 +0000

The eagles were servants of Manwe, and would then be under the no direct help ban as all the Valar/Ainur were (exceptions being the wizards sent to guide the races in helping themselves). Balrogs did not have wings, but the darkness emanating from the one in Moria spread “like wings” when the balrog manifested his power. Whether or not a dragon could kill a balrog, no idea, Gothmog was chief of Morgoth’s liutenants therefore probably the 2nd most powerful being, but dragons are then said to be the most powerful of the evils later…

By: AnonymousToo

AnonymousToo — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 15:33:23 +0000

The Eagles would be tempted… to EAT THE HOBBITS. I’m sure they could smell them through the sacks. Then, when indigestion hit over Mt. Doom… well, problem solved, world saved.

By: Esha

Esha — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 10:45:39 +0000

I don’t believe they do. As far as I recall, a Balrog was described the Silly-Ma-Rilly-On and I don’t seem to remember a mention being made of wings. I just think the idea of wings was lifted from the later D&D version of the winged, horned daemonic entity of the pit.

I could not resist, sorry!

@Tuor

In fact, I actually have a better one. The “Balrogs versus Dragons” topic, I saw a topic go on about that for some 400-odd pages once, somewhere. The end result was that if a Dragon could beat a Balrog, it would only be via Dragonspell.

Perhaps that discussion should be reborn here!

I’m such a nerdy rabble-rauser.

By: Frans Coehoorn

Frans Coehoorn — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 10:41:12 +0000

Do they have wings, actually?

By: Tuor

Tuor — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 23:03:18 +0000

Fascinating, really. This topic has only been discussed ad nausseum a bajillion times since even before the days of alt.fan.tolkien and rec.arts.books.tolkien.

Next someone is going to bring up the “Do Balrogs have wings?” topic, and RPS will implode. You’ve been warned!

By: Arathain

Arathain — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 22:06:34 +0000

Nonono, the Frodo still has the ring. He’s in one of the sacks.

If an Eagle got it’s talons on it it would conveniently resize itself, which we know it can do.

By: DeliriumWartner

DeliriumWartner — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 18:35:18 +0000

Ok, the long ropes I can’t kinda understand, but how the hell would an eagle wear the ring?

By: Gorgeras

Gorgeras — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 17:11:31 +0000

I don’t get it. Is Mordor the ONLY place in Middle-Earth with an active volcano? Sorry, no, really; I swear the film showed lava in Moria and it really isn’t that hot on it’s surface. If the Dwarves couldn’t build a forge hot enough to melt a ring, I don’t see how they could make ANYTHING even if it wasn’t normal easy-melt gold.

Or is it that heat isn’t the issue; it’s that the ring 0wns anything that tries to destroy it like it nearly did Gimli?

Do they have a postal service in Middle-Earth? They must have. They should have bloody mailed it to Gondor and then gone there by horse(apparently months of travel becomes about three days when you have a horse in Middle-Earth) and just got drunk while waiting for a parcel. Cuts a lot of the faffing about out.

I just had a new idea for a Postman Pat book.

By: mujadaddy

mujadaddy — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 16:15:10 +0000

I just reread LotR last week. Good stuff.

Kieron, why didn’t you suggest that the eagles take ninja classes, a la You Only Live Twice…?

Oh, and Orodruin is WEST of Barad Dur, duhhh.

By: Kieron Gillen

Kieron Gillen — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 14:58:18 +0000

Thinking about it, if you came in from the east and low, you could use Mount Doom itself to get in the way of the eye.

By: nena

nena — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 13:51:22 +0000

Or, why not come at it like an RTS player. Use a captured Saruman to open your own orc pits, train a load of anti-nazgul female archers, bribe the Southrons (let them have the Shire…) and storm the gates.