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The Mouth of Sauron
03-21-2014, 05:54 AM
At Helm's Deep Gimli tells Eomer: "till now I have hewed naught but wood since Moria". And yet when Boromir died Legolas told Aragorn that he and Gimli had killed many Orcs around Parth Galen.
Explanation?
William Cloud Hicklin
03-21-2014, 06:36 AM
Yep, a slip. Even Homer nods occasionally.
Mithalwen
03-21-2014, 06:37 AM
People do forget things, or an uncorrected typo, or maybe gimli grabbed them from behind while. Legolas slit their throats :cool:
William Cloud Hicklin
03-21-2014, 06:41 AM
Or maybe Gimli was being a bit disingenuous with the "we" part, when really he was just trying to catch up while shield-surfing Leggy mowed 'em down with his machine-bow.....
Mithalwen
03-21-2014, 06:46 AM
Snork... more seriously, surely an axe ia more of a melée weapon and less suited to the stealth that hunted suggests. Could be a sniper spotter arrangement save that a dwarf's eyes aren't going to improve on an elf's. So yep WCH is probably right. At best Gimli held Leggy's coat and covered his back.
Inziladun
03-21-2014, 04:25 PM
The actual quote from Legolas was:
'We have hunted and slain many Orcs in the woods.'
Maybe both hunted, Legolas did the slaying, and he just didn't want to be pedantic.
That, or Gimli thought Orcs were made of wood (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yp_l5ntikaU). ;)
Belegorn
03-21-2014, 04:42 PM
Gimli's a damnable liar! Never trust a Dwarf.
Morthoron
03-21-2014, 04:48 PM
Gimli's forgetfulness? Pipeweed induced.
jallanite
03-21-2014, 04:50 PM
This is a well-known discrepancy. See http://www.google.ca/search?q=till+now+I+have+hewn+naught+but+wood+sinc e+Moria&client=firefox-a&hs=ldo&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&channel=sb&ei=ibgsU9DPF4m-qgGtwIGAAQ&start=30&sa=N&biw=904&bih=507 for numerous comments.
It has not been corrected because mostly Christopher Tolkien and Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull have only corrected discrepancies where the change is minor. Wayne G. Hammond and Chistina Scull mention in “NOTE ON THE 50ᵀᴴ ANNIVERSARY EDITION” in current publications of Fellowship:But those inconsistencies of content, such as Gimli’s famous (and erroneous) statement in Book III, Chapter 7, ‘Till now I have hewn naught but wood since I left Moria’, which would require rewriting rather than than simple correction, remain unchanged.
William Cloud Hicklin
03-22-2014, 07:34 PM
That, or Gimli thought Orcs were made of wood (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yp_l5ntikaU). ;)
Well, Eomer's Riders did burn them.....
But more than that- you can build a bridge out of them! "Driven onward in madness, they.....bridged the dike with their dead."
But to my knowledge nobody ever conducted an Orc/duck weigh-off
Mithalwen
03-25-2014, 04:11 PM
But has anyone tried to float an orc? Are they waterfunks like the Nazgûl?
Belegorn
03-26-2014, 11:24 AM
They don't sink like Hobbits.
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