Upgrade your account to a Community Supporter account and remove most of the site ads.
Rocket your D&D 5E and Level Up: Advanced 5E games into space! Alpha Star Magazine Is Launching... Right Now!

Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="Edena_of_Neith" data-source="post: 373019" data-attributes="member: 2020">Ok, some more reasons:  - - -  Serious reasons, most certainly NOT made in humor or jest, but in complete earnest:  #1:  The story didn't follow Frodo's own thinking, instead going to Sam's thinking   #2:  The story didn't follow Frodo INTO Valinor, where the grand reception of the Valar, Maiar, Vanyar, Noldor, and Teleri awaited him and his friends  #3:  We didn't get to see Frodo having some major good times in Valinor, after arriving  #4:  Frodo wasn't escorted back to the Shire by a thousand-strong honor guard of Gondorian and Rohirrim soldiers, loaded with caskets of jewels, gems, gold, silver, and all the mithril they could find, plus medals of honor, armor of honor, coat of honor, along with proclamations of his deeds and his heroism and his suffering for all the peoples of Middle Earth, plus announcements of his permanent Noble status (next only to Aragorn himself)  #5:  Sam wasn't given the treatment above  #6:  Merry wasn't given something slightly less than the treatment above  #7:  Pippin wasn't given a lesser version of the treatment above  #8:  Legolas and Gimli weren't given lesser versions of the treatment above  #9:  Gollum wasn't given his rightful, due place as an unwitting hero (as well as being a villain of the first order)  - - -  Reasons of a more humorous, less serious nature:  #10:  Sauron (or his spirit) never came out of Barad-Dur.  What was his problem, a broken leg? (with that armor, just maybe that WAS the problem)  #11:  Why couldn't the Nazgul just LAND in Minas Tirith and start laying about with their swords, and have done with it?  #12:  Why did Frodo run headlong into the death-trap of Cirith Ungol?  If Shelob hadn't rescued him (RESCUED!!!) he'd have been orc-toast for sure!  #13:  How is it that Gorbag and Shagrat's forces so nicely eliminated each other, so that none remained?  Usually in a battle, there is a victor.  #14:  I don't care if the Rohirrim and Numenorians WERE medieval civilizations - if the women of Sauron's people could fight (with the Wain-Riders, they could!) then so could the People of the West.  Instead, Theoden, Eomer, AND Aragorn really DO tell Eowyn to go and burn with the house.    #15:  If the Huorns were so blasted powerful that they could eat all those orcs at Helm's Deep (or, whatever they did with them), then why the blazes didn't they help with Gondor after defeating the other orcs in the Wold?  After all, after Gondor fell, Fangorn Forest was a military target of Sauron's.  #16:  Why couldn't Tolkien tell us where the Ent-Wives went?  I would have really have liked to know.  #17:  Uh ... why don't trees grow in most of Eriador anymore?  You know, trees DO grow back after being cut down, and after forest fires.  They do.  Especially with a marine west coast climate like Eriador's.    #18:  Why didn't Sauron assault Rivendell, the Shire, and Linden, during the War of the Ring?  He had the orcs, from the Misty Mountains, to do this.  #19:  Why didn't Aragorn the legendary RANGER realize that you cannot go through a high mountain pass, in the dead of WINTER, without wood for a fire?  #20:  Why didn't Galadriel the incredibly wise, and Celeborn the also wise, go to their northern border to greet the Fellowship, or at least give Haldir explicit instructions concerning all contingencies??  (I mean, the One Ring coming to town had to be slightly more important than a travelling carnival, didn't it?  Didn't it??  I could be wrong ...)  #21:  Why did Gandalf the White have to be such an uncaring person, when Gandalf the Grey was so caring?  (check out his remarks to the hobbits just as he was leaving them to talk with Tom Bombadil, in ROTK.)    Did the sudden infusion of power drive out the caring, worth-caring about Gandalf we knew?  #22:  Considering the importance of the capture of the two hobbits, why didn't that Nazgul just swoop down, kill Ugluk, frighten everyone else into cowed submission, and take off with the two hobbits?    They WERE of top strategic importance to Sauron.  What a lazy butt!  He couldn't leave his Tower, and so he wanted to ground all his servants too.  What incompetence ...</blockquote>

Verification