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Old 04-25-2011, 08:00 AM   #8
Alfirin
Shade of Carn Dûm
 
Join Date: Jun 2007
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Alfirin has been trapped in the Barrow!
Another place Smaugh might have made a difference (assuming he agreed to help Sauron) might be at Pellenor. This would basically have been a bigger version of how he might have helped at some of the other battles. At Pellenor he basically could have all but destroyed the whole Minas Tirith army, frying them from the air. Or suppose the amount of coopertation between Smaug and Sauron was deep enough that Smaug consented to let the WK ride him to Pellenor. With one blast of fire he could have literally roasted Theoden where he stood, and prbaby done the same to Eowyn Eormer and anyone else causing the Mordor armies trouble. With only one tiny weak spot he'd have been a lot harder to take down than the winged beasts were, and he might not have even had that weak spot anymore (since Smaug unlike a winged beast is both intellegent and articulate, if he knew about the missing spot (or someone in Mordor noticed it) he could probably have had a breastplate made in Mordor(He's undowtedly strong enough to bear that much extra weight) Or simply had someone stick a gem right in the opening, making him TRULY invicible. Actually the army probably would not have been neccecarry, Smaug Himself could have simply flown over and roasted Minas Tirith (we saw how badly it suffered from fire simply from flaming arrows, imagine what dragon fire could do). Quite simply with Smaug you would have a mobile flying firestorm. who knows how that would have changed things.
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