Comments | koinegeek: Can you imagine what it would be like if we had walked the entire way...

koinegeek

Can you imagine what it would be like if we had walked the entire way...

Jan 18, 2006 12:07

I love the trilogy, I really do, but this link I got from movie_blog_feed was too funny to pass up:

How Lord of the Rings should have ended

lotr, link

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koinegeek January 18 2006, 13:24:40 UTC

glad you liked it :)

darkladyothsith January 18 2006, 10:08:36 UTC

ROTFL!!

That was great fun! Thanks for sharing.

koinegeek January 18 2006, 13:26:12 UTC

No problem :)

I've always loved Tolkien's eagles, even though they were usually convenient plot devices :)

lilia2000 January 18 2006, 10:46:26 UTC

LOL! Very funny. Dad asked me why they didn't do that. I said, well, there would be no story! Thanks for the link.

koinegeek January 18 2006, 13:26:51 UTC

That's right :) Eagles do as Eagles are... Mysterious their ways are...

sweet_deviant January 18 2006, 14:28:56 UTC

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahahahahahahahahahaaaaaaaaa!
totally.
Short, sweet, funny, to the point.

koinegeek January 18 2006, 14:30:41 UTC

Yeah. Boromir mooning Sauron was a nice touch :)

exsanity January 18 2006, 15:28:20 UTC

the reason they couldn't do it like this in the movies or in the book is because the Nazgul would stop the eagles.

koinegeek January 19 2006, 07:33:26 UTC

I dunno. In the movie, who came to fight the Nazgul in the final battle in front of the Black Gate? The eagles. Granted, the Nazgul did not have their leader, so perhaps they were weakened a bit.

I believe Tolkien always used the reason that eagles, since they were in direct control of Manwe, did what they did for reasons we cannot fathom.

exsanity January 19 2006, 07:36:32 UTC

The eagles FOUGHT the Nazgul. Perhaps in the end they beat them, but still.

If I were an eagle, I wouldn't want to go and fight big dragon creatures while the fate of the world depends on me safely delivering a fragile squishy creature that was precariously suspended in my gripping predatory claws.

I believe that the threat of the Nazgul, with or without Wraiths riding them, would be enough to deter any non-mentioned plan of simply sending in the eagles.

koinegeek January 19 2006, 07:41:07 UTC

Remembering the Eagles in the Hobbit, they seemed to me quite numerous, so unless Sauron had a stash of fell beasts hidden away in caves, the eagles would have numerical superiority. Plus, the one carrying Frodo wouldn't be fighting, the others would cover for him :)

I liked it that the Eagle in the clip was blindfolded. Gandalf's trickery, I bet :)

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