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12-21-2013, 06:40 PM
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Animated Skeleton
Join Date: Dec 2012
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As for Gimli killing 42 orcs at Helm's Deep, I don't think it is unrealistic.
He is standing on top of a wall and the orcs are coming up on ladders having trouble defending themselves (ony one arm to parry UPWARDS, and he has to worry about balance as well). Gimli just has to bonk them on the head basically, easy-peasy. I read a book on the conquest of Constantinople by the Turks in 1492, and the numbers seemed to fit. They reported that a wall manned with 50 men could keep 1000 invaders at bay and such, |
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12-30-2013, 12:32 PM
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Doubting Dwimmerlaik
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Heaven's basement
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Too bad that dead eye assassins Legolas and/or Tauriel weren't at Helm's Deep when Saruman's forces attacked...as surely with at least one of them present, no torchbearing orc could have reached the culvert.
 And in Hobbit 2: DoS, why didn't Legolas put an arrow into Bolg's head upon site? Why did the blonde one feel the need to go sword-to-sword with this larger than normal orc?
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