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**The Saucepan Man** · 05-29-2003, 01:59 PM

Why do ghosts wear sheets? [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

Laura · 05-31-2003, 08:22 AM

Don't the Nazgul have some kind of armour on under their robes? Cause when the witchking is reaching for the ring at Weathertop, he's got some kind of glove thing on hasn't he? So would they be invisible completely without their robes, or just a pair of floating hands. Maybe they didn't have gloves in the book. I can't remember.

Laura · 05-31-2003, 08:24 AM

Wait a minute...Saucepan Man? Isn't he from the faraway tree? [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]

Ophelia · 06-04-2003, 02:00 PM

Oah deary my .... [img]smilies/eek.gif[/img] Again I'm startin' ta think I have found this site too late . So many replys that I have not read them all again so again I must beg for forgivenes in case of I repeat somebody .
Well firstly who cares about small things like theese ? You gotta admit that those black robes gave the effect . And those gloves ? Well a book is one thing but in the film how do you imagine the scene with those swords on the Weathertop at the incredible moment when the Nazgūl (damn I can't do that u thing even if following the given insturctiones [img]smilies/frown.gif[/img] ) were steping out from the shadows slowly taking step by step and slowly drawing their swords and lining up , just imagine this scene with only sound of footsteps where iron boots had to be and those swords hanging in the air instead of being held by an impressive glove . It would not look so good , I belive .
And secondly , maybe I'm mistakening but I do not remember Tolkien writing anything about those gloves . Maybe I'm wrong so correct me if I am .

THE Ka · 08-10-2003, 09:41 PM

i only have this to say:
O, that this too too soild flesh would melt, thaw and resolve itself into dew
-shakespear Hamelt, 1,2
The time has been , that when the brains were out, thZ

rutslegolas · 02-01-2004, 01:25 AM

i remember reading once in the book that--
gandalf says" nazgul wear black robes to give form to their nothingness"

i also think that without the black robes they could not have travelled throughout hobbiton and bree cause people would take them to be ghosts

05-29-2003, 01:59 PM	#41
The Saucepan Man Corpus Cacophonous Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: A green and pleasant land Posts: 8,436	Why do ghosts wear sheets? [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] __________________ Do you mind? I'm busy doing the fishstick. It's a very delicate state of mind!

05-31-2003, 08:22 AM	#42
Laura Pile O'Bones Join Date: May 2003 Location: England Posts: 11	Don't the Nazgul have some kind of armour on under their robes? Cause when the witchking is reaching for the ring at Weathertop, he's got some kind of glove thing on hasn't he? So would they be invisible completely without their robes, or just a pair of floating hands. Maybe they didn't have gloves in the book. I can't remember. __________________ 'This ring, no other is made by the elves, who'd pawn their own mother to grab it themselves,'

05-31-2003, 08:24 AM	#43
Laura Pile O'Bones Join Date: May 2003 Location: England Posts: 11	Wait a minute...Saucepan Man? Isn't he from the faraway tree? [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] __________________ 'This ring, no other is made by the elves, who'd pawn their own mother to grab it themselves,'

06-04-2003, 02:00 PM	#44
Ophelia Wight Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: somewhere between the sacred , silence and sweet . Posts: 169	Oah deary my .... [img]smilies/eek.gif[/img] Again I'm startin' ta think I have found this site too late . So many replys that I have not read them all again so again I must beg for forgivenes in case of I repeat somebody . Well firstly who cares about small things like theese ? You gotta admit that those black robes gave the effect . And those gloves ? Well a book is one thing but in the film how do you imagine the scene with those swords on the Weathertop at the incredible moment when the Nazgūl (damn I can't do that u thing even if following the given insturctiones [img]smilies/frown.gif[/img] ) were steping out from the shadows slowly taking step by step and slowly drawing their swords and lining up , just imagine this scene with only sound of footsteps where iron boots had to be and those swords hanging in the air instead of being held by an impressive glove . It would not look so good , I belive . And secondly , maybe I'm mistakening but I do not remember Tolkien writing anything about those gloves . Maybe I'm wrong so correct me if I am . __________________ I didn't lose my mind . It was mine to give away .

02-01-2004, 01:25 AM	#46
rutslegolas Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: In Elven Lands of India Posts: 547	i remember reading once in the book that-- gandalf says" nazgul wear black robes to give form to their nothingness" i also think that without the black robes they could not have travelled throughout hobbiton and bree cause people would take them to be ghosts __________________ If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with the bull - The Phantom.

08-10-2003, 09:41 PM	#45
THE Ka Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: As with the flygja Posts: 1,522	i only have this to say: O, that this too too soild flesh would melt, thaw and resolve itself into dew -shakespear Hamelt, 1,2 The time has been , that when the brains were out, thZ