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Old 04-25-2014, 08:47 PM   #35
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Originally Posted by The Mouth of Sauron View Post
More to the point, why didn't Gandalf and Elrond save everyone a lot of time and trouble and just hand the ring to Gwaihir and let him fly into Mordor and drop the ring into the fire?
The most obvious answer would be that you would condense the story from a three-book novel to a three-page instruction manual. And one page would be in English followed by the same instructions in Spanish and French.
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