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Old 05-14-2010, 05:09 AM   #1
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This doesn't have to be just movies, I guess.
It doesn't, but I am just defining what I am discussing. Jackson's "Terminator-like" Nine aren't exactly Tolkien's.
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Old 05-16-2010, 04:19 PM   #2
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Do the Ringwraiths feel pain?

Only if you talk really mean to them.
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Old 05-16-2010, 05:10 PM   #3
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I can see them getting heavily into the "I feel your pain" mode.
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Old 05-18-2010, 09:30 AM   #5
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Only if you talk really mean to them.
"Elbereth Gilthoniel," in other words.

But didn't the torched Nazgul, after getting a torch in the head from Aragorn, scream?
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But didn't the torched Nazgul, after getting a torch in the head from Aragorn, scream?
They were never good at rejection. Folks with obsessive/compulsive disorders rarely are.
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Old 05-18-2010, 02:58 PM   #7
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What's amazing is that the Nazgul are driven off Weathertop (or, with their mission accomplished, did they just cede the ground?) by fire. Gandalf is known for pyrotechnics. You'd think that this would give the Grey/White Wizard an edge when facing one or more of the Nine.
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What's amazing is that the Nazgul are driven off Weathertop (or, with their mission accomplished, did they just cede the ground?) by fire.
No, I don't believe they merely receded into the shadows. Frodo's blade of Westernesse came dangerously close to extinguishing the WiKi. Or at least that is what is implied.

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Gandalf is known for pyrotechnics. You'd think that this would give the Grey/White Wizard an edge when facing one or more of the Nine.
Gandalf did have an edge. He drove several wraiths off Weathertop with pyrotechn...

Oh. Wait. You're being facetious. Never mind.
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Old 05-19-2010, 11:52 AM   #9
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No, I don't believe they merely receded into the shadows. Frodo's blade of Westernesse came dangerously close to extinguishing the WiKi. Or at least that is what is implied.
Sorry, I was speaking of the Peter Jackson movies. Aragorn does not fight the Nazgul at Weathertop in the books (unless that part was written between the lines). In the movie, Frodo just gets off a whimper and not a stab.

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Nope. Not in the movies. Gandalf did use his holy flashlight to drive away the Winged Nazgul on the Pelennor Fields, but his batteries ran out when the Witch King later came a knocking.

If only he could learn that nifty fireball spell of Saruman's...
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