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Old 10-30-2004, 12:50 AM   #284
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Attention! Attention!

Monsieur Loudewater will now charge at orcs of the line like Marchel Murat at the head of the reserve cavalry at the Battle of Eylau!

Not Kransha.

Vive le farmer!

Consider this - Loudewater is an untrained combatant. The ambush has already taken the wits out of him and hence was only pacing around lost and confused when Thoronmir spotted Kransha from quite a distant and pushed the inept farmer away. Loudewater never saw Kransha.

Should Tarando suddenly appear and order the dazed farmer to go charging uphill to handle a single orc together with himself and Osric, Loudewater wouldn't know what to do and neither will he respond at all to the elf.

However!

At point of time many other lesser orcs under big "B" would have identified the wounded Thoronmir and would be scampering towards him for an easy kill - like hyenas to a badly wounded lion. Loudewater will see them in the nick of time and he will definitely respond. Though totally inadequate, he will buy the wounded ranger a little time before sitting out of this one. This will most certainly increase the rapport between this two and symbolically represent the growing ties between the elite of Arnor and the commoners as widely suggested in the books during the Fourth age.

As for Tarando and Osric, there is already some tension between the both of them. Tarando thinks the young Rohirrm may prove to be headstrong and unreliable while the latter thinkss Tarando is belittling him. The engagement with Kransha l'invincible will resolve that, I hope. Because it is the most fitting scenario.
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