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"It is the cruelest fate, to have written words that meant well and see them made wicked and unwise. What was meant to encourage life, used instead to justify taking it."
Posted by: Forever MS
Gandalf is a wizard from World of Warcraft. He has special abilities that can only be used after cooldowns that are never specified. He can hit the ground with his staff and inflict incredible aoe damage to 1000 goblins around himbut doesn't seem to be able to do it afterwards. He can summon eagles when he is in danger...but only sometimes and not others. Is there an explanation for this? Or do we have to understand that Tolkien's intended plot twist was for future generations to discover that the world of Middle Earth was actually a video game?
Please. Gandalf has impressive power, but even he has his limits. And the Eagles only assist him when it's convenient or if helping him will turn the tide of a war.
Posted by: Forever MS
Bilbo Baggins is a scared little Hobbit who is afraid to leave the Shire to go on an adventure. Fast forward two days of walking around in a forest and Bilbo encounters the first monsters he ever saw in his life: 3 giant trolls. Most warriors would be scared to go challenge them alone but Bilbo, being the little afraid hobbit that he was portrayed to be so far, is completely nonchalant about sneaking-up behind a 2-ton killing machine to try to pickpocket his giant knife that weighs half of his weight. How is that supposed to work? The whole concept of pickpocketing someone is that it needs to be something small barely attached to a layer of clothing that is not in direct contact with your skin. But Bilbo, in his first encounter with monsters in his life, is trying the Houdiniest pickpocket trick of all time by removing a 1 meter knife from a giant murdering creature's ass crack with the added thrill factor of having two other trolls facing him directly. When did he develop these two balls to rule them all?
"Hobbits can pass unseen by most, if they choose."
Plus, wild trolls have the intelligence of a rock (no pun intended). Not really a threat if you can outsmart them.
Posted by: Forever MS
Since the eagles are the best air taxis in town, and they are taxis since they have to be called upon first, why did Gandalf not ask them for a ride at the beginning of the movie? And why did he not ask them to drop them at the lonely mountain to make it impossible for Peter Jackson to milk a 300 page book into a trilogy? (Don't say it is explained in the books you knowledgeable nerds; a movie has to be self-reliant)
THEY. ARE. NOT. FRIGGING. TAXIS.
Erebor is 300 miles away from their eyrie, not worth dropping off a few dwarves who will most likely die at the end anyways (or so they think).
Please, learn some stuff about a topic before you troll about it.
[Edited on 12.24.2012 2:22 PM PST]