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Why does everyone keep asking this? The eagles would have been spotted by the Eye of Sauron and brought down by the Ringwraiths on their flying beasts. You may all thank me now for settling this.
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# ? Oct 31, 2014 08:15 |
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# ? Mar 19, 2024 12:38 |
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Well the ringwraiths had flying mounts...and they could sense that poo poo from halfway across the world...
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# ? Oct 31, 2014 08:18 |
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cheaper just to take the bus
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# ? Oct 31, 2014 08:18 |
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Thank you Bifford, for settling this.
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# ? Oct 31, 2014 08:19 |
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just me and two dudes with anime avatars in this thread. cold chillin
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# ? Oct 31, 2014 08:20 |
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why didnt the ringwraiths just swoop down on their flying beasts and pluck that little stumpy fucker Frodo off the face of middle earth from the get-go? mysteries indeed...
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# ? Oct 31, 2014 08:20 |
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a hole-y ghost posted:why didnt the ringwraiths just swoop down on their flying beasts and pluck that little stumpy fucker Frodo off the face of middle earth from the get-go? Sauron wasn't aware until pretty late in the game that they had actually given the ring to a Hobbit, because he never believed they wouldn't use it against him
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# ? Oct 31, 2014 08:21 |
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The Eagles are a bunch of stupid jackasses who were all "Sauron? Well he's not attacking us right at this moment, so he's not our loving problem, SKREEEEEEEEEEE!". Gandalf has to clean the poo poo out of their roosts for a year just to get them to save Frodo.
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# ? Oct 31, 2014 08:21 |
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a hole-y ghost posted:why didnt the ringwraiths just swoop down on their flying beasts and pluck that little stumpy fucker Frodo off the face of middle earth from the get-go? They tried that a few times iirc
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# ? Oct 31, 2014 08:22 |
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Matoi Ryuko posted:Well the ringwraiths had flying mounts...and they could sense that poo poo from halfway across the world... people once told me you were a good poster, so I will step out
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# ? Oct 31, 2014 08:22 |
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Harime Nui posted:Sauron wasn't aware until pretty late in the game that they had actually given the ring to a Hobbit, because he never believed they wouldn't use it against him
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# ? Oct 31, 2014 08:22 |
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a hole-y ghost posted:why didnt the ringwraiths just swoop down on their flying beasts and pluck that little stumpy fucker Frodo off the face of middle earth from the get-go? Probably because that would have gotten shot down too, flying over all those dumb human and elf villages.
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# ? Oct 31, 2014 08:23 |
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Maverick was busy mourning Goose and not available.
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# ? Oct 31, 2014 08:24 |
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a hole-y ghost posted:so the ring wraiths couldnt tell where the ring was? I thought that was their whole thing When he put it on only and then, not right away or something idk it's been years since I read the books. I just remember that Sauron believed Elrond, Gandalf or Denethor would all use the ring if they could get it because he couldn't even conceive of someone willfully throwing away power.
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# ? Oct 31, 2014 08:25 |
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anyways i guess the answer is "the ringwraiths were lovely at their job, probably due to being bored after doing the same thing for thousands of years"
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# ? Oct 31, 2014 08:26 |
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a hole-y ghost posted:so the ring wraiths couldnt tell where the ring was? I thought that was their whole thing they can tell the general vicinity I think but if you put it on they home in on you like LotR GPS
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# ? Oct 31, 2014 08:27 |
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Matoi Ryuko posted:Probably because that would have gotten shot down too, flying over all those dumb human and elf villages. sauron well understands the importance of combined arms. notice how the wraiths only tend to get deployed in situations where they have the element of surprise or where worries about air superiority are negligible, and they only get used in open warfare as a terror weapon against the forces of gondor which are already heavily engaged against ground troops. a hole-y ghost posted:so the ring wraiths couldnt tell where the ring was? I thought that was their whole thing the wraiths are linked to sauron who can only tell where the ring is when it gets used. that's why it's a big hairy deal whenever frodo puts on the ring and hence why sauron goes totally apeshit when he detects the ring activate in mount doom.
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# ? Oct 31, 2014 08:27 |
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gandolf the gay
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# ? Oct 31, 2014 08:28 |
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plus I think that was kind of half the point of the Battle at the Black Gate, Gondor and Co. knew they were hopelessly outnumbered but they were trying to draw attention away from Frodo if a bunch of eagles just flew in to Mordor randomly otherwise, I think Sauron would have been all over that poo poo
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# ? Oct 31, 2014 08:29 |
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Daedra posted:gandolf the gay gandalf gay, so what
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# ? Oct 31, 2014 08:30 |
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Daedra posted:gandolf the gay
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# ? Oct 31, 2014 08:30 |
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hobbits can fly, why would they need eagles (birds or football team)
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# ? Oct 31, 2014 08:34 |
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man I hate the eagles!!!!!! -walter white in the big leibowitz
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# ? Oct 31, 2014 08:36 |
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The silmarillion is so much more satisfying than any religious text. I wish Tolkien had existed a few thousand years ago and this was the poo poo people believed now.
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# ? Oct 31, 2014 08:42 |
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spooky girlfriend posted:The silmarillion is so much more satisfying than any religious text. I wish Tolkien had existed a few thousand years ago and this was the poo poo people believed now.
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# ? Oct 31, 2014 08:43 |
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spooky girlfriend posted:The silmarillion is so much more satisfying than any religious text. I wish Tolkien had existed a few thousand years ago and this was the poo poo people believed now. this is the poo poo I believe now.
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# ? Oct 31, 2014 08:44 |
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The Church of Eru and Latter-Day Ainur
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# ? Oct 31, 2014 08:45 |
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What would Tom Bombadil do?
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# ? Oct 31, 2014 08:47 |
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spooky girlfriend posted:The silmarillion is so much more satisfying than any religious text. I wish Tolkien had existed a few thousand years ago and this was the poo poo people believed now. If that was the case, we would have internet atheists asking the eagle question as a serious way to spread "Reason" about religious texts. So no.
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# ? Oct 31, 2014 08:48 |
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Matoi Ryuko posted:What would Tom Bombadil do? Also we would have internet atheists asking whether Tom Bombadil had a navel. Just imagine.
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# ? Oct 31, 2014 08:49 |
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Matoi Ryuko posted:What would Tom Bombadil do?
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# ? Oct 31, 2014 08:49 |
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a hole-y ghost posted:be excluded by peter jackson Peter Jackson would be like the church fathers who codified scriptures, and when people found out about Tom Bombadil it would be like discovering the gnostic gospels.
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# ? Oct 31, 2014 08:50 |
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If they flew through the air, the big rear end eye that sits on top of a god drat tower would have spotted them easily.
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# ? Oct 31, 2014 08:50 |
makes sense why they wouldn't fly into mordor still doesn't explain why they didn't fly the dwarves to the lonely mountain
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# ? Oct 31, 2014 08:50 |
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glowing-fish posted:Peter Jackson would be like the church fathers who codified scriptures, and when people found out about Tom Bombadil it would be like discovering the gnostic gospels. the question of whether the elves showed up at Helm's Deep or not would spark the equivalent of the Protestant Reformation and centuries of bloody warfare
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# ? Oct 31, 2014 08:51 |
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glowing-fish posted:Peter Jackson would be like the church fathers who codified scriptures, and when people found out about Tom Bombadil it would be like discovering the gnostic gospels. You've thought about this before haven't you.
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# ? Oct 31, 2014 08:52 |
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MrSmokes posted:makes sense why they wouldn't fly into mordor Because the Eagles are big loving jerks who don't do poo poo for anyone else without expecting something in return. They're the Libertarians of Middle Earth.
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# ? Oct 31, 2014 08:53 |
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You guys are probably right, but I would still take it over what we have now. People would actually read the Silmarillion! Who actually reads the bible? I read like a third of it and it is no Silmarillion let me tell you.
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# ? Oct 31, 2014 08:55 |
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spooky girlfriend posted:You guys are probably right, but I would still take it over what we have now. People would actually read the Silmarillion! Who actually reads the bible? the Bible is funnier though vvv Exactly ANIME IS BLOOD fucked around with this message at 09:03 on Oct 31, 2014 |
# ? Oct 31, 2014 08:56 |
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# ? Mar 19, 2024 12:38 |
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spooky girlfriend posted:You guys are probably right, but I would still take it over what we have now. People would actually read the Silmarillion! Who actually reads the bible?
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# ? Oct 31, 2014 09:02 |