Saruman's fireball

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Originally Posted by Lyta_Underhill

I think the reason I never played D & D had much to do with the fact that it seemed too mathematical and not intuitive enough for my irreverent mind.

Lyta, you played D&D with the wrong people. My buddies weren't so..shall we say...exacting. And math is, well, all math to me, so to speak.

Originally Posted by Lyta_Underhill

P.S. I still haven't figured out the diaphanous contribution to the Balrog flight equation, which is justifiable since I don't believe they have wings anyway!

They have wings, but they're just for show (vestigial?).

Originally Posted by Essex

Just because Saruman was bad or not, if someone is attempting to murder him, then it would be natural for Legolas to try and save him.

Will have to review the scene, but I thought that Saruman was already stabbed, so Legolas wasn't preventing anything but just adding to his total - now if he would have shot Saruman, sending him backwards and saving him from falling...

And didn't Gandalf say something about killing needlessly? I just feel that the Wormtongue 'execution by Elf' wasn't right.