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What became of the Mouth of Sauron?
Gandalf takes the mithril coat from the Mouth of Sauron, he whezes and chokes in rage, runs back into the Black Gate and then...?
Nothing more is heard of him in the rest of the book, not even a passing reference to his fate, so the question has to be... what happened? I can personally imagine him trying to flee with as much gold and other riches as possible as he comes across as a complete coward and I can't envision him fighting. |
Two possibilities.
My guess is one of 2 possibilities. The MOS either died in the fall of Barad-dur, or he hid in cubby hole crying, after being humiliated and let's say "out-insulted" by Gandalf and Aragorn. But, I'm just guessing.
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Deconstructing the Mouth ...
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So I envisage him having a slightly different fate, although no less terminal. The fact that the Mouth of Sauron had forgotten his name would suggest that he had lived well beyond his natural lifespan. Assuming that was the case, such unnatural longetivity would no doubt have been the product of sorcerous power delegated to him by Sauron. Once the Ring was destroyed and Sauron defeated, such delegated power would no longer have been available to him. I suspect, therefore, that he aged alarmingly rapidly and was reduced to little more than dust in a matter of moments. Much as Christopher Lee does at the end of most Dracula films. :D (On the solid assumption that the Mouth will appear in the Extended Edition of the RotK film, I can see such a scenario appealing greatly to Jackson. ;) ) |
Tell me what you think?
SpM I have overlooked probably a key opponent in order to solve this (if it even is solvable), here's the quote tell me what you think...
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Either way, he's dust
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But the extract does, to my mind, make it clear that the Mouth would have had no chance of making it back to Barad-Dur before its fall. |
Ahhh, I do see what you are saying, yes that makes sense now. Now that I have read it again, yes, the signal was blown, the guard came out, and Tolkien was just describing before they could reach the gate, the army was unleashed. Ok, yes I do agree, I think he wouldn't have been able to get to Barad-dur.
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Actually, his weezing and choking in rage was him having a hyperventilation attack. He fled back to the gates and the various forts, and probably got dizzy, couldn't feel his hands and feet, and then suffocated.
Poor guy, I guess that's what happens when you eat crow, feathers and all. Especially Stormcrow, the most bitter of all the crows you could possibly eat. :) |
Went into dentistry. Obviously.
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Dentistry? Er... I somehow doubt it, I mean wouldn't he keep insulting the patients? :confused:
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Unfortunately it was never actually documented what happened to the MoS but in my opinion he undoubtedly met a grisly, unhonourable end rather quickly after Sauron's demise. It's not entirely impossible that he got caught up in the battle at the Black Gate and was simply hewn down by a simple warrior...
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It make sense, I mean the guy wasan utter coward wasn't he? :D
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