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<blockquote data-quote="Uller" data-source="post: 296418" data-attributes="member: 413">This is true both in the movie and the books.&nbsp; What was missed in the movie is what was going in during and about the time of The Hobbit.&nbsp; Sauron had taken form in Mirkwood as 'The Necromancer' and the White Council and their allies were busy battling and destroying this unkown evil (which is why Gandalf kept leaving Bilbo and the Dwarves to their own fate...he had more urgent business to attend).&nbsp; They were eventually successful.&nbsp; So in the beginning of FotR, Sauron and the Nazgul were only recently reformed and still very weak.&nbsp; On top of that, Gandalf had recently battled the Nazgul on Weathertop so they were probably further weakened by that.&nbsp; So in the book, it was not so implausible for the &quot;bad ass&quot; wraiths to be weak enough that a single (heroic) Ranger could drive them off if they were in no mood to fight an unknown factor.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Uller, post: 296418, member: 413"] This is true both in the movie and the books. What was missed in the movie is what was going in during and about the time of The Hobbit. Sauron had taken form in Mirkwood as 'The Necromancer' and the White Council and their allies were busy battling and destroying this unkown evil (which is why Gandalf kept leaving Bilbo and the Dwarves to their own fate...he had more urgent business to attend). They were eventually successful. So in the beginning of FotR, Sauron and the Nazgul were only recently reformed and still very weak. On top of that, Gandalf had recently battled the Nazgul on Weathertop so they were probably further weakened by that. So in the book, it was not so implausible for the "bad ass" wraiths to be weak enough that a single (heroic) Ranger could drive them off if they were in no mood to fight an unknown factor. [/QUOTE]

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