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re: Laundry list of LOTR questions
Posted on 1/12/21 at 7:45 pm to Jack Ruby
Posted on 1/12/21 at 7:45 pm to Jack Ruby
Why did no one know Moria had been sacked? The dead bodies look like they've been there for 30 years and skeltonized.
- Moria had been under the control of orcs and goblins for a long time. Balin had taken a contingent of dwarves to take it back. It wasn't like people came and went there like it was the Mall.
Why were goblins still occupying the caves if a fricking Balrog was roaming the hallways.
- They were in the service of the Balrog, an alliance even.
How did Gollum get across the bridge a Khazad Dume when it was broken by Gandalf?
- There's more than one way through the deeps of Middle Earth for a creature like Gollum.
Why werent the Urak-hai created before and why the hell are they growing in some earth pod.
- Saruman, their creator, was originally good. But in using the Palantir he saw the might of Sauron and was corrupted to believe that there was no hope for the good people of Middle Earth. He despaired and then decided to make a deal with Sauron.
Why did Sauromon turn so quickly? Did he honestly think he could co-exist or defeat Sauron?
-See above
How did the Witch King beat Gandalf so easily? He's not even an angelic being like Sarumon, Sauron, the Balrogs and others, yet broke his staff. And speaking of the staff, why the wizards sometimes seem powerless without them and then sometimes don't seem to need them at all.
- In the novels he didn't.
And lastsly, what the hell did the one ring actually do besides cloud men's minds? Is that it? And why did Sauron wear it? Did it make him physically any stronger? He is the same being as the wizards, but he was seemingly far more powerful? Is that all because of the ring?
- Imagine the power of an evil god, like Satan let's say. Now imagine all that power infused in to a ring that is almost sentient in its own right. The full power of the ring was never really shown, but if Melkor was the baddest of the adasses, and Sauron was his right hand man, then you can imagine how powerful the ring was.
- Moria had been under the control of orcs and goblins for a long time. Balin had taken a contingent of dwarves to take it back. It wasn't like people came and went there like it was the Mall.
Why were goblins still occupying the caves if a fricking Balrog was roaming the hallways.
- They were in the service of the Balrog, an alliance even.
How did Gollum get across the bridge a Khazad Dume when it was broken by Gandalf?
- There's more than one way through the deeps of Middle Earth for a creature like Gollum.
Why werent the Urak-hai created before and why the hell are they growing in some earth pod.
- Saruman, their creator, was originally good. But in using the Palantir he saw the might of Sauron and was corrupted to believe that there was no hope for the good people of Middle Earth. He despaired and then decided to make a deal with Sauron.
Why did Sauromon turn so quickly? Did he honestly think he could co-exist or defeat Sauron?
-See above
How did the Witch King beat Gandalf so easily? He's not even an angelic being like Sarumon, Sauron, the Balrogs and others, yet broke his staff. And speaking of the staff, why the wizards sometimes seem powerless without them and then sometimes don't seem to need them at all.
- In the novels he didn't.
And lastsly, what the hell did the one ring actually do besides cloud men's minds? Is that it? And why did Sauron wear it? Did it make him physically any stronger? He is the same being as the wizards, but he was seemingly far more powerful? Is that all because of the ring?
- Imagine the power of an evil god, like Satan let's say. Now imagine all that power infused in to a ring that is almost sentient in its own right. The full power of the ring was never really shown, but if Melkor was the baddest of the adasses, and Sauron was his right hand man, then you can imagine how powerful the ring was.
This post was edited on 1/12/21 at 7:46 pm
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Posted on 1/12/21 at 7:55 pm to TygerTyger
I’ve never seen a thread on this site resolved so quickly.
Posted on 1/12/21 at 9:03 pm to TygerTyger
quote:
- Saruman, their creator, was originally good. But in using the Palantir he saw the might of Sauron and was corrupted to believe that there was no hope for the good people of Middle Earth. He despaired and then decided to make a deal with Sauron.
To be fair, Saruman was actively planning on taking the One Ring for himself and then challenging Sauron. He was delusional to do such, but his alliance with Sauron was bullshite, and even Sauron was aware of this.
This post was edited on 1/12/21 at 11:07 pm
Posted on 1/13/21 at 2:48 pm to TygerTyger
You gotta remember also that between the Hobbit and the LotR is 60ish years.
And The One Ring on top of being a massively cursed object if you weren't Sauron was effectively his invincible and endless life and even without the ring Sauron was a potent and overpowering force who was forced to be be essential a fleet-in-being because if he really left port, he would be vulnerable. That's why he's parked in the tower and armies stationed around mt doom, chipping away at the kingdoms of man, instead of conquering middle earth in a leisurely stroll.
Even though Aragorn's ancestor massively fricked up. He still effectively made it a tense creeping stalemate until some Hobbits finally got in on the act.
And The One Ring on top of being a massively cursed object if you weren't Sauron was effectively his invincible and endless life and even without the ring Sauron was a potent and overpowering force who was forced to be be essential a fleet-in-being because if he really left port, he would be vulnerable. That's why he's parked in the tower and armies stationed around mt doom, chipping away at the kingdoms of man, instead of conquering middle earth in a leisurely stroll.
Even though Aragorn's ancestor massively fricked up. He still effectively made it a tense creeping stalemate until some Hobbits finally got in on the act.
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