Should be in /lit/ since Glorfindel isn't even in the movies, much to my chagrin.

Glorfindel isn't canon. Liv Tyler's Arwen is canon.

because he's a homosexual

>>8880148
He's in ROTK during Aragorn's coronation.

>>8880118
whats a balrog?

because glorfindel attracts attention and they're trying to be stealthy

>>8880171
>whats a balrog?

a bullfrog that can't spell?

This would have had the same result as flying into Mordor on eagles

>>8880209


Mission accomplished?

>>8880250

No.

>>8880259


Yes.

Glorfindel didn't volunteer. He was too scared. The Fellowship were all brave volunteers. Everyone else at the council of Elrond was too scared to go with them.

So. .. why didn't he put all that power in his armor instead of a ring?

>>8880209
No different than having Legolas, except you would've had one of the most powerful elves of all time on your side in important battles like Helm's deep. Also if you replaced Merry or Pippin with him, the other one wouldn't have been kidnapped by orcs.

>>8880161
>>8880161
>>8880161
>>8880161
>>8880161
Pics or it didn't happen

>>8880294
Glorfindel didn't volunteer. No one was sent to Mordor, they volunteered for the quest. Glorfindel was too busy being a faggot.

Why didn't they sentinels in the matrix have guns?

They would have raped the APUs so bad with them.

I mean the APUs don't even have armor for fucks sake

>>8880315
> However, in The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003), there are some blond Elves background extras present at Aragorn's coronation at Minas Tirith. One of them is identified in promotional material as Glorfindel; he is played by Jarl Benzon.[12]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glorfindel#Adaptations

>>8880209
they should have flown legolas to the suburbs of mount doom, where he could tie the ring to an arrow and shoot in the fire from 10 miles away, in a drive by style incident.

Why are the hobbits so short?

>>8880370
Have you been smoking Shire Weed? No archer can shoot ten miles, even with an elf wood bow.

Wikipedia
>Glorfindel was in the fellowship in the beta. Tolkien changed him into Legolas for unknown reasons.

In your thread.

Being manly.

>>8880405

Why did I read this post in Gimli's voice?

>>8880391
Gandalf was breeding Hobbits to be sold as pets back in Gondor.

Why did they care if sauron got the ring back?

He was a fucking eye!

How the hell is he going to wear a ring?

>>8880370

Wouldn't have worked. The Will of the Ring is powerful enough to make that shot fail.

>>8880436
Dude... seriously dude...

>>8880426
You read this post in MY voice.

>>8880405
yeah but the arrow is also tied to one of those epic fireworks, so the arrow/ring/firewrok complex is fired as the fuse is lit, and then the firework goes off and carries it the rest of the distance.

>>8880436
excellent fucking point.

>>8880436
0/10

>>8880464
But then the Ring could just use its own power to mess with the magic of Gandalf's enchanted fireworks. It would make itself be launched straight at Sauron to be reunited.

why didn't they get dwarfs to tunnel a side chamber into a mount doom lava seam?

>>8880490
oh, well. couldn't gandalf somehow do magic to reduce the rings power?

HOW COME NO ONE EVER GOES FOR A PISS?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

>>8880509
How big was the Hobbit's poop after it ate like 7 loaves of Lembas bread?

>this thread

Why didn't sauron just close off Mt. Doom until he got the ring back?

>>8880508

Hey, Gandalf is pretty powerful but even he can't fuck with the fucking One Ring.

>>8880537
Because LOTR is a stupid book
Very important
But stupid

Why didn't Sauron just put police tape all the way around Mordor to keep people out?

Why didn't Gandalf just use his magic to not be a faggot?

>>8880492

ARE YOU NUTS!?

All the One Ring does is make you invisible. What the hell does Sauron plan on doing with it?

>>8880509

The 24 thread is over there

Better question, why are the hobbits so fucking unlikeable?

>>8880523
i know right, one small bite is enough to fill the stomach of a normal man/elf

>>8880537
The ring is all corrupting, and evil is pompous. Sauron Believed no one would ever destroy it.

Why didn't Count Saruman just use his vampire skills to eat Gandalf and fly away?

>>8880568
Dem dorfs, dem dorfs. lol

Would you?

>>8880570

It makes everyone else invisible, but it turns him GODMODE.
Hell knows why.

>>8880609
Because Sauron is its Master and can control all of its powers.

>>8880598

Wrong movie. Obviously you mean his Sith powers.

>>8880606

Eh, it's not gay if it's an elf.

Why didn't Sauron destroy Mt Doom immediately after making the ring?

Why didn't he wear mithril gloves?

needs moar dorfs

>>8880628

because evil never thinks ahead.

>>8880625
Actually, it's considerably more gay.

Why didn't elf boy just kick that faggot in the lava when he wouldn't toss in the ring?

>>8880617
why didn't sauron fucking find it himself?
he can change his form so he should have gone out looking for it.

>>8880628
What would mithril gloves do?

Why is sauron the badass's armor worse than hobbit boy's?

>>8880609
What?
What powers does he get?

>>8880492

Because the giant eye towering high above the surrounding landscape MIGHT see them?

>>8880436
it's implied he had regained a physical form during the war of the ring. lrn2books

>>8880652
Why didn't he have mithril gloves to begin with, since before he had the ring he was still quite mortal and even after making the ring he should have known that he was still mortal.

>>8880666
Armor made from mithril is basically invulnerable to anything, including Nazgul blades. His finger wouldn't have been cut off by some shitty broken sword if he had worn proper armor.

>>8880665

because he's a lazy fucker and would rather have his nine niggers on horseback do his dirty work.

>>8880656
Elves don't trust magma, they've had bad experiences in the past. Haven't you ever played Dwarf Fortress?

They missed one huge epic moment in ROTK. Sauron was changed to cave troll in post production. There weren't epic final boss battle between Sauron and Aragorn.

>>8880680
Sam and Frodo were walking around near the border of Mordor for months and were never noticed.

The dwarves should have tunneled underneath Mordor and then towards Mt Doom and thrown the ring in there.

Why didn't they send Tom Bombadil with the fellowship?

Surely he would've been more useful than Merry or Pippin. The fucker is the immortal embodiment of joy, liberty, and freedom from the bondage of evil.

>>8880693
the sword is made of mithril too though.

>>8880693
Not even Sauron could afford a complete suit of Mithril. Frodo's tiny, child sized mithril shirt is worth more than most kingdoms. It represents more mithril than anyone else in the world owns.

>>8880693

It was a plot sword. Plot swords can cut through anything.

>>8880693
Mithril wasn't gonna protect against friggin Narsil

>>8880726
THEN WHO WAS MITHRIL?

But seriously, then what happens?

>>8880721
This was directly addressed in the books.

He's too much of a "fuck it" sort of guy.

How can anyone cut off that dragon thing's head with a few swipes of a sword?

You would have trouble doing that to a cow or a reasonably fat man let alone a dragon

>>8880729
So that's all the mithril that's left?

Also, didn't Sauron get defeated thousands of years before? Wasn't there more mithril then?

Plus, doesn't the fellowship see an entire cave of mithril in the extended edition?

>>8880747
The sword is basically a mythical katana that cuts through anything...

except it actually cuts through anything

>>8880742
Narsil was just a normal sword. It was broken in half by Sauron himself. Mithril would have stopped it.

>>8880721
>>8880762
But was Bombadil actually powerful?

Could he actually fight?

Didn't think so.

allright heres an idea: the eagles could have said to sauron that they would bring him gollum, sauron would agree to this because he would want to punish and interogate him. so they tie golum up and put him on the eagles back, but then stick the ring up his ass. then the eagle flys him to mount doom and throws him in the fire.

>>8880685
Sauron is a pussy. The first time he really was in a battle was when he was forced down from his goddamn tower to face the last alliance. And then some prick with a broken sword cut off his damn iron hand.

>>8880773
Most Mithril was lost. The dwarfs had a lot of tragedies in their mines. From Smaug taking over the Lonely Mountain, to them digging too deep in Moria and unleashing hell. They lost lots of mithril when they fled. Moria was their most productive mithril mine.

>>8880784
maybe cause

Demigod>some metal?

are the Barlog's wings real, or just metaphorical?

>>8880814
Sauron fought alongside Morgoth as well.

why did they not mail order a bucket of Mount Doom drop the ring in there

Why didn't sauron put a few hundred guards at Mt doom 24/7?

>>8880828
he got his ass kicked by some elf and her boyfriend

>>8880793
>But was Bombadil actually powerful?

Bombadil is the most powerful being in the world. He just doesn't care about anything outside of his forest. Gandalf says that if you gave him the Ring, he would just throw it away because he really doesn't understand why it's dangerous because it could never affect him. Sauron is no danger to Bombadil, nothing is. So he just doesn't understand how it could be dangerous to other creatures, most of which he doesn't really care about.

How can Lambas bread taste SO GOOD while still not interfering with my figure?

>>8880793
He calls himself the "Eldest" and the "Master".

I don't think Tom would have to fight. And it's like this guy says..>>8880762 Tom didn't need to fight.

That's how it is when you're free and living in joy.. the darkness has no hold over you, no power in you.

Why didn't they find another volcano?

>>8880808 the eagles could have said to sauron that they would bring him gollum

Why would Sauron believe anything the eagles say?

>>8880824

Ostriches have metaphorical wings now?

>>8880842
Sauron had an army surrounding Mount Doom. But when he thought he had a chance to kill Aragorn and Gondor's army, he sent them to the Black Gate.

>>8880824
Did you even see the movie? Do those look metaphorical to you?

>>8880845
>most of which he doesn't really care about.

I disagree. I think in the books Tom cares completely. He's patiently waiting for the rest of them to grow up and realize all the struggle is unneeded.

>>8880822
Mithril is the strongest metal in Middle Earth.

I like how they need a volcano to destroy the Ring, but the only volcano in all of Middle Earth happens to be right next to the villains fortress.

>>8880853
not realy true: its said in the books that He would fall last like he was first if they send the ring to him

Sauron is definatly capable of taking over his forrest were he to defeat the rest of middle earth first

>>8880845
The ring does not affect him. Right. But Sauron would eventually pose a threat to him, except he would be the last thing Sauron could go after. He is the embodiment of the world, so he would be the last to fall.

why couldn't dwarfs forge a million replicas of the ring then sauron would never find thr right one, if they scattered them all over middle earth.

I am actually little sad because Icelandic volcano didn't erupt when LOTR movies were in produktion -> they could have enchanced mount doom more epic looking based on how real volcanos look like when things are happening. There would have been coloured lightning, sonic booms in ash clouds and more detailed texture everywhere.

>>8880867

Why? The ring was the most important thing

Sauron is sound pretty unimpressive right now

>>8880843
>>8880828

Herp derp, Sauron was the next in command below Morgoth. All they did was lurk deep down in Angband and occasionally fucking up a couple of elven armies.

>>8880853
You gullable cunt. He's supposed to show the danger of being completely content and not caring about anything else. The Hobbits are much like him, but they still have the ability to GIVE A SHIT.

Tolkine himself said that the reason leaving the ring with Tom was not an option is simply because eventually him and his forest would fall before Sauron's might. One dude can't take on the entire world, no matter how powerful,

>>8880161
But considering he doesn't speak and noone refers to him as Glorfindel, is he really Glorfindel??

>>8880862
they were very impartial and trustworthy and sauron was so crazed to get his hands on the ring he would do anything.

>>8880888
I like how decided to put godmode powers into a shitty ring instead of something permanent like a tattoo

>>8880888
It's not just any volcano, retard. It had to be destroyed in the same place it was created.

Why didn't sauron put whatever magic made the ring indestructible into his armor?

>>8880924
No, you irreducible douche stain, Tom was much more noble than you apparently think. It is very possible to give a shit about people, and show that by allowing them to learn the lessons they needed to learn.

In other words, there are sometimes noble, correct reasons to not get involved. That is how Tom is shown.

>>8880953
he was retarded, and tried to be smart for his own good.

>>8880939 they were very impartial

They have been oppsong both dark lords for, dunno, several millenia? Very impartial indeed.

>>8880915
Because he was pretty sure that Aragorn had the ring and was gonna try to use it as his ancestor had so long before

It was all part of a gamble aragorn did by showing himself to sauron and then forcing his palantir to make him see the stuff he wanted: aka showing his mental superiority in controlling them over sauron

In saurons mind Aragorn had the ring and wanted to come claim his throne. And he knew that aragorn in that case wouldn't yet be strong enough to face him if he used his entire army

Liv Tyler's character is seen easily defeating nine strong supernatural beings, even though she is clearly a woman.

Why didn't sauron put a door on Mt. Doom and lock it?

>>8880924
>gullable

>>8880946

It was forged in a volcano, therefore it can be destroyed in a volcano. I know fantasy novels have some poetic license but 'IT HAS TO BE DESTROYED WHERE IT WAS MADE COS OF MAGIC' is just stupid.

>>8880939
They were spirits send by the great enemy of his master

even sauron is not that stupid

>>8881010
"CLOSED FOR RENOVATION"
Sam & Frodo: "Oh shi-"

Who would win in a fight

Sauron or Voldemort?

>>8881034

Neither. They were both created by equally shit writers.

>>8881034
Voldemord is a lich

Sauron is a demigod

Im pretty sure who wins

>>8880946
>>8881017
Dragon's fire can destroy the rings of power. That's how a couple of the Dwarves' rings were lost.

>>8881034
based on his name, Sauron totally should have a dragon head.

Serious question: Why didn't Gandalf take the ring to Valinor? Sauron can't get there.

>>8881062
Rings of power yes, but not the One ring

>>8881062
But not even Ancalagon the black's former fire was hot enough to melt The one Ring (said right after that)

google him if you don't understand why that negate's dragon fire

That wasn't the same Glorfindel.

>>8880996
Well you'll be happy to know that she didn't defeat them, she only washed them down the river. As Gollum says, you can't kill the Nazgul. Also in the book it's Glorfindel at the river, and it's Elrond who calls down the flood and Gandalf who makes the water look like horses just for the sake of presentation and looking cool.

>>8881070
Its a problem of middle earth, they would never want it

>>8881034
probably voldemort, because he actually does stuff and is smart, he doesn't rely on brute force.

>>8881034
Protip: Voldemort is a Sauron ripoff. Greatest weakness is self-made and external, rendered bodiless for a while but got better, likes to use mind-control to get things done, etc. Sauron has nothing as gay as "the great snake Nagini" though (seriously, that's a circus act, not something intimidating), so the original wins.

Why didn't they bring a girl along?

A buncha guys traveling together for a long long time is kinda gay

>>8881091
Eowyn killed a Nazgul.

Not sure if trolled, but Glorfindel, who killed Balrog, was not the same Glorfindel, who was in Rivendell.

>>8880875
in the books they dont have wings at all

they're just fire demons with fire swords and fire whips

>>8881111
Sam and Frodo had an sorta relationship, legolas is an elf, finding a dwarf women is kinda hard so gimli substituted legolas for women, aragorn had a chick waiting at home for him, and pepin and merrin also had a sorta relationship

the only one who can be doubted about is boromir but he's prolly to war focused and asexual

>>8881111

ooo trip quads. Full House.

Ahem.. she would have been continually gang raped by all of them. Plus the hobbits would be left out. The average hobbit penus is about 3 inches at most.

>>8881146
YES HE WAS

>>8881111
they were too preoccupied for sex

>>8881141
Merry fucking did it

>>8881146
He was brought back like Gandalf, despite only playing a minor role in his second life.

>>8881159
i demand source

>>8881153
What about Gandalf?

>>8881146
>Not sure if trolled, but Glorfindel, who killed Balrog, was not the same Glorfindel, who was in Rivendell.

Yes it is the same guy.

>In the fiction of J. R. R. Tolkien, Glorfindel appears twice as a name of an Elf who appears in the tales of Middle-earth. He first appears in various material relating to the First Age of Middle-earth, including The Silmarillion. The second appears in The Lord of the Rings, which takes place in Middle-earth's Third Age. In later writings, Tolkien states they were one and the same, though this is not evident from The Silmarillion and The Lord of the Rings.

>>8881147
"It stepped forward slowly on to the bridge, and suddenly it drew itself up to a great height, and its wings were spread from wall to wall."

Lrn2read.

>>8881186

Gandalf loved his horse

>>8881173


Even at night. . .when you pull out your cock and start to stroke it, but you are tired of masturbation and you look at legolas and you think "Well, It's not really gay if I'm desperate" and before you know it his pointy ears are between your legs?

>>8881186
He was still pissed about his boyfriend saruman dumping him

>>8881146
yeah he was.

the one in rivendell was the other one resurrected

>>8881175

They both did. Merry stabbed him in the back, distracting him long enough for Eowyn to cut off his head. As neither one was a "man" (Eowyn was a human woman, and Merry a male Hobbit), they were exempt from the whole "No man can kill me" clause.

And, to remind you all, in the book their swords melted after stabbing him, and they both nearly died and needed Aragorn's king magic to heal them.

>>8881216


That scene was bullshit.

>>8881111
They were only together for a couple of months. I went without sex for 28 years and it wasn't that big of a deal.

Also, Aragorn was fucking Arwen and Eowyn

>>8881111
Legolass counts as a girl

>>8881216
Merry's Westernesse blade was the thing which made the Witch King mortal though

>>8881241

>I went without sex for 28 years

On purpose?

>>8881216
Its pretty much the trope namer for no man can beat me

>>8881239
No anon, you are the bullshit

>>8881241
No he wasn't.

Also: We both know it was a big deal and you fucking thought so until you lost your virginity and was fuckall "WELL IT WASN'T THAT BAD... PROMISE!"

>>8881267


Seriously though.

Completely destroyed the aura of power they had for me

>>8881267
the witch kings last words prolly were

"What are the fucking odds"

>>8881285

riding around on a harley lizard wearing a Scary Movie mask is "powerful" to you?

get over it.

>>8881285
magical blade+prophesy kicking in at the same time

and still they almost die from it

I thought the "no man can kill me" thing was just a boast about his skill and power or something.

It's actually some kinda magic rule though?

That's kinda lame.

>>8881295

more like

"killed by an elf. the shame."

>>8881263

I thought that went back to MacBeth, with the whole "No man born of woman can kill you", and he's all "Awesome, I'm immortal!" until he gets killed by MacDuff, because he was not technically "born of woman" (primitive Caesarian)

>>8881337
yeh I forgot, its macbeth

also I made you got to TV tropes didn't I? have fun tonight

>>8881332

so much illiteracy on this board.

>>8881332
The Witch-King was a moron for boasting about a prophecy. Prophecies always come true in the most assraping way possible, but he must not have gotten that memo.

>>8881189
Then it is obvious, that while Level 80 Glorfindel killed Balrog he died himself also and later had to start releveling. He was a puny level 10 at the time of Lord of the Rings.

>>8881332
The "no man can kill me" was a prophecy. Not really magical. In the book, when he finds out she's a woman, he's like; "FFFFFFFUUUUU... I think I can still take her!"

>>8881365
he literally says it in the book against eowyn

>>8881337
>I thought that went back to MacBeth

It does. That's not the only Shakespeare reference in LotR, or even the only Macbeth reference. Ents came out of Macbeth too.

>The dramatic scene of the Ents marching into battle is a powerful moment, as well as a subtle nod to Shakespeare’s Macbeth, in which one of the prophecies relating to Macbeth’s demise is that a forest will physically move toward a castle. The episode of the Ents, in reminding us that evil in The Lord of the Rings is a universal force, touching even the lives of trees, forests, and entire landscapes, is an important component of the rich portrayal of the natural world that Tolkien has created in the novel.

>>8881312


I am over it and you know what?

I'm over you.

Don't call me anymore phil.

>>8881400


Oh, snap!

Was sauron going to make more rings once he got his ring back or something?

Why did he keep Mt.Doom around?

>>8881458
"Oh I no longer need Mount Doom, I'll guess I'll blow it up with C4 or something."

>>8881458
I propose that the guy who does the Star Wars prequel reviews should do a special on the Lord of the Rings.

>>8881458
Oh sure, and for his next trick he'll fight the gods for the Western Lands.

>>8881491


I was thinking more along the lines of magic, but C4 would work

>>8881535
>implying Sauron is powerful enough to make a volcano disappear, but not drop a mountain on his enemies

>>8881511
sauce?

>>8881555


Why not magically seal it?

>>8881612
On the prequel reviews? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxKtZmQgxrI

>>8881612
http://www.redlettermedia.com/

Take everything he says with a grain of salt. He's funny and makes a lot of good points, but many of his criticisms could be applied even to some of the very best movies. For example, several of his criticisms of the TNG movies could also apply to the original Trek movies which he loves so much he wouldn't dare criticize them.

>>8881618
Because then the plot wouldn't have worked at all, silly. You can't have Frodo and Sam finally arrive at the volcano only to find it's magically sealed. Then Frodo would have had no choice but to put on the Ring and then were would we have been?

The whole point LoTR is trying to make, though, is that Sauron could have done a lot of things if Sauron had been clever, but he wasn't. Sauron literally couldn't conceive of anyone being stupid enough to destroy the Ring rather than use it, so why bother with Mount Doom at all? It made the environment look suitably ominous.

>188 posts and 13 image replies omitted.
I bet OP is author who just removed his trip

fuck you anyway

>>8881189
The Glorfindel and the balrog fell from a cliff and they both died.
Lrn2Silmarillion&Turin

>>8881700
With First Contact he said it was the 3000th worst movie ever. He probabply doesn't hate it, it just had its flaws like many movies, and he was doing the other TNG movies, so why leave one out?

>>8881712

>Because then the plot wouldn't have worked at all, silly.

WEEEEEEEEE EEEEEEEEEEEEWWWWW WWWWWWWWWWWW EEEEEWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW


10-4 good buddy what do we got here?

Looks like a good old fashioned cop-out

>>8881788
Oh, do read the second part. I know this thread is full of lovely trolls trolling trolls (I've put in a few myself), but now I've put on serious face.

Why did sauron wear clothes?

I mean if you're evil overlord guy who gives a fuck?

>>8881851
he wore armour, not clothes

>>8881762
why do people fighting balrogs always fall from cliffs and die