>"And who is this? Isildur's heir? It takes more to make a king than a broken elvish bl-ACK!"
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>"And who is this? Isildur's heir? It takes more to make a king than a broken elvish bl-ACK!"
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this wasn't a warcrime because that thing wasn't human and the geneva conventions only apply to humans
Nuh-uh he was human. The Mouth of Sauron was a black Númenórian.
More like buckenorian
Is it true there was a fly on his head and Aragorn tried to swat it but missed badly?
It was insulting both of them
he did his best
>Mouth of Sauron
Do you know of this actor? In Mordor he is no man.
Why didn't they fly the eagles directly to Mordor from the start?
>The Eagles owe Gandalf a favor, but they aren't his fricking pets
>The Eagles are intelligent, and would demand an explanation for why they were just asked to fly a bunch of random buttholes into Mordor, when they're trying to keep the mission around the ring top secret
>If they told the Eagles, the Eagles are just as susceptible to the corruption of the Ring as any man or elf and the eagle carrying Frodo for a prolonged period of time would start getting delusions of being the Great Eagle Lord who would bring the time of the Eagles to all Middle Earth if only he just "accidentally" lost his grip on this little halfling he was carrying...
>Many animals act as spies and agents for Sauron, and Sauron is directly stated to have birds as his spies, so they would absolutely see the eagles coming
>The Nazgûl can also fly upon their Fell Beasts, which would absolutely tear the eagles apart
>This is to say nothing of the fact that Sauron is a fricking sorcerer with a big ass eye on top of his tower looking at everything and would have absolutely seen the eagles and done something about them if all else failed
The whole point was to play to Sauron's weaknesses. He's a demon who lusts for power, so it doesn't even occur to him that people who came across the Ring would want to destroy it instead of using its power for themselves. Their whole mission was playing a long con with Sauron to make him think that Gondor had taken the Ring and were planning on using it against him instead of sneaking it into Mordor to destroy it. They attack the gates of Mordor specifically as a ruse to make Sauron think that there's an overconfident ringbearer among them who thinks he can destroy all the armies of Mordor with nothing more than the power of the Ring. They know this will draw all the forces out of Mordor because Sauron thinks the army at the gates has the Ring and so his Eye will be fixed on them and not the two short people scaling Mount Doom.
Ok but then why didn't the eagles just fly them over the misty mountains instead then? That's a short and safe trip.
Birds are notorious buttholes
Because Sauron would see them doing that. The whole idea was keeping a low profile.
How would he see that? It's like a 10 minute trip for them and it's thousands of miles away from Mordor.
He has many spies, including birds.
So? What are they gonna tell Sauron? "Yes sir some big birds flew a bunch of guys over a mountain and those guys were last seen on the river going south to Gondor."
Seems like it'd just work directly into the fellowships favor.
>So? What are they gonna tell Sauron?
Yes. The birds do tell Sauronman and he uses the information to block their passage, then send uruk hai to kill and capture them.
So why don't they just use the eagles to escape?
Because Gandalf is imprisoned in Orthanc for months, that's how long it takes for him to contact the eagles and forr Gwaihir to fly down to rescue him. If they sit around waiting for that long they will be set upon by Saruman's forces if they don't tear themselves apart due to the ring's influence, not to mention the risk of corrupting the eagles
That's realistic
Saruman spots them even when they are travelling by ground as a small party. They would immediately be noticed even faster iif they were soaring through the air on giant eagles. Moreover putting the ring in contact with proud creatures like the eagles is a risk
That and that hobbits are generally overlooked as a race in general. Its like if the united states had built a wall to prevent browns from coming in and neglected to plan for two guys rafting into san francisco bay in a refrigerator box.
Headcanon.
Mordor implements the Fell Beast high powered air defence system that are about as powerful as the eagles, if anything went wrong the ring could easily be lost and it would land on Sauron's doorstep
ask Tolkien
Do you have permission to post that video?
Yes actually I am an eagle myself
>all these people trying to come up with new coping explanations when this is the actual truth
It takes more to make a king than a broken elvish black?
What does that even mean? There were black elves all along and they were being buckbroken?
>There were black elves all along and they were being buckbroken?
Yes.
It wasn't a war crime because there was no law of war in middle earth. The only consequence for killing a messenger is that no quarter will be given to your messengers. They weren't planning on sending any.
the fact that tolkien wont address this is why grrm will always be the writer
He was engaging in wartime propaganda, lying about dead Frodo to demoralize the opponent, so its an act of aggression. Any army would bomb the enemy's propaganda centre.
Aragorn is innocent.