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Maéglin · 08-30-2003, 11:54 PM

Dimaldaeon, that was very interesting info about the term 'fire.' I always thought that term sounded too 'modernised' for the medieval period. And yes it was all very exaggerated, 300 against 10000? But I also thought the Elves were not 'powerful' enough or the Uruk-hai were too tough. I remember a scene where one of the Uruk-hai jumps over the battlement and starts hacking Elves left and right <P>And for consistency's sake what are they going to do with the Battle of the Pelennor Fields... I mean Theoden is supposed to ride with 6000 to Gondor but in TTT, they only have 2000 led by Eomer (even less now, assuming they sustained some casualties, which they should have.)<P>However after the wall section being blown up, 300 soldiers, with many of them being children would not last a whole night against 10000 heavily armed troops, no matter how good the defense, realistically IMHO.

08-30-2003, 11:54 PM	#15
Maéglin Haunting Spirit Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Australia Posts: 99	Dimaldaeon, that was very interesting info about the term 'fire.' I always thought that term sounded too 'modernised' for the medieval period. And yes it was all very exaggerated, 300 against 10000? But I also thought the Elves were not 'powerful' enough or the Uruk-hai were too tough. I remember a scene where one of the Uruk-hai jumps over the battlement and starts hacking Elves left and right <P>And for consistency's sake what are they going to do with the Battle of the Pelennor Fields... I mean Theoden is supposed to ride with 6000 to Gondor but in TTT, they only have 2000 led by Eomer (even less now, assuming they sustained some casualties, which they should have.)<P>However after the wall section being blown up, 300 soldiers, with many of them being children would not last a whole night against 10000 heavily armed troops, no matter how good the defense, realistically IMHO.