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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Elder-Basilisk" data-source="post: 1294974" data-attributes="member: 3146">Curiously, while the characters of the book did appear to face weaker odds in the Mines of Moria than they did in the films, in some later battles, they actually faced greater odds. In the film, for instance, Boromir faced fewer orcs at once and slew fewer orcs in the defense of Merry and Pippin than he did in the book. It took fewer archers to bring him down as well.The description of Aragorn and co.'s exploits in the Battle of Helm's Deep is no less superhuman in the book than in the film.And Pippin killed a troll in final battle before the gates of Mordor.It doesn't seem to me that high level D&D characters would necessarily be out of place in middle earth. (Although fireballs would be).This is particularly evident when ME is considered as a whole. Artificially capping power levels by statting Sauron as a 13th level wizard may make sense when considering only the end of the third age but it doesn't fit his status in the first age as the lietenant of Morgroth in an age inhabited by the likes of Turin Turambar--who singlehandedly slew Glaurung, the father of Dragons--Hurin--accounted the greatest warrior of men who stood alone against hundreds of orcs and trolls and slew over 80 of them despite losing his axe to their acidic blood--Fingolfin--who fought Morgroth himself and wounded him such that he never dared fight again--and all of the others--Eorl--who, IIRC, slew the Ice-worm Scatha--Isildur--whose curse bound the men of the mountains for an age before they could fulfill their oath to Aragorn and depart the circles of the world--Gil Galad, Boromir the first--who it is said that the Lord of the Nazgul feared to meet in battle--Elendil, Luthien--who bound Morgroth and his entire court in enchanted sleep--and others. A world in which the high end of personal power is a 13th level wizard doesn't fit the final corruption of Numenor or the sundering of the sea either. If the hosts of Ar Phazon caused the Valinor to fear and lay down their guardianship of the world, they ought to count many men of more than 13th level among their number.As for Aragorn--I think that "half-elf" is probably a better D&D fit for the Dunedain than Aasimar. While ME did not have half-elves in the D&D sense, Imrahil, Denethor, Faramir, Aragorn, et al seem to fit the longer-lived but still mortal, keen eyed but not as keen as elves, half-elf area.Speaking of Darkness, however, the 3.5 version seems to fit very well with the shadows that the huorns were able to clok themselves with. It suspect that D&D light and shadow magic as well as any magic dealing with emotions would be right at home in LotR--indeed, the weakness of D&D in a ME setting is that it doesn't have magic powerful (or subtle) enough to simulate that Saruman placed against Aragorn, Gimli, and Legolas as they pursued the orcs or the will that Frodo encountered in Mordor.</blockquote>

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