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#29163
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Make fun of shimraa thread and other stuff we can think of!
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Hey guys i wrote a poem today i figured this would be the best place to put it.

With banners furled and clarions mute,
With eyes to compare,
The morning sun,
An army passes in the night.

Thin Byzantine faces, walking in,
Horror, Remote and lonely,
Above there heads the legions press on,
An army passes in the night.

The blood of there ancestors,
Fall silent till dead men hear,
The high-untrespassed sanctity of space,
An army passes in the night.

Grave men, near death who see,
Waiting to hear the winds,
Like old beggars under sacks,
An army passes in the night.

Swoosh thud swoosh thud,
An army passes.

tell me what you think or make fun of it if you want i dont care.
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#29162
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Lord of the Rings...what's the deal?
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you could be right there i dont really know about gandalf, i do know that he has one of the elven rings thou.

as for saruman i know he isnt a god. i read a little thin in the appendix about him. and it said that they didnt really know where he came from. he first appeared when the men a numenor came.and if he he is a demi god he would never have been corrupted because sauron is not a demi-god he was a servant of a demi god. (melkor i think his name was)
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#29161
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THE LORD OF THE RINGS: Return of the King (spoilers)
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Originally posted by: Rebel Scumb
So your saying if there had abeen an army of elves fighting with the rohan riders in the battle of the pelenor fields you wouldn't have liked ROTK? lots of things in the movies go against the books, and the movies are all the better for it.


that would have be too big of a change, it is like the idea that PJ had to bring back sauron.

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I'm not suggesting the dundedan or the sons of elrond should come to Helms deep (though actually they came a long time after Helms deep if you remember)


you sure i was positive that they came with aragorns friend at helms deep.

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I'm suggesting that NOBODY came and it was just the rohan there to fight off the Uruks until Gandalf and Eomer arrived. Bringing the elves took away from the plight of the men, and in the end they all died so it felt pointless.


that would have work i dont mind that idea

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And as a fan of the books I can't help but be struck by the lack of logic in their arrival. The Uruks left before the elves and only had to go from Isengard to Helms deep, while the elves came from Lotherlien which is 20 times farther (check out the maps) and left after the uruks had been deployed, yet arrived ahead of the Uruks? Not to mention that Haldir brought word from Elrond, yet he lives with and serves Galadrial, and would likely have no knowldege of what Elrond was up to. It all just seems silly to me, and doesn't really add anything to the story.


you see that is the movie logic, in the book it wasnt the elves who came it was the rangers, and they set out long b4 the battle of helms deep was to have started. i should add that rangers can move very fast and light when they want to so the logic works in the book.

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#29151
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THE LORD OF THE RINGS: Return of the King (spoilers)
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i disagree rebel, at helms deep in the books the duenadain or what ever the guys are called,(rangers) come to aid rohan, and with them came the sons of elrond as well, in the movie it would have been very confusing if they had brought in the rangers and introduced the new characters, so instead they brought in the elves inorder to give the elfs more importance they used the elf from lorien as the leader because ppl knew him from the last movie. so all they change was the identity of the ppl who came to rohans aid and if you say that is doesnt fit, then take it up with JRR tokein cus it was his idea.

i personally would have been appalled if they had elfs come to the battle in ROTK. it would have gone against the book completely. also remeber that the ROTK battle was the big battle for middle earth, the elfves said that they didn't want to get involved, because it was nolonger up to them to save the day, the race of men has to win this battle by itself.
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#29150
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Lord of the Rings...what's the deal?
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no i havent. is it good.


Note: i dont think gandalf is a demi-god, i think the reason he is so old is because he holds one of the rings of power. He is not an elf howeveer he has one of the three eleven rings because one of the elf lords gave it to him before he left middle earth. you find this out at the very end of the return of the kings, does anyone remeber the part i a refering to?