>The leader/king charges first into the battle into a swarm of enemies alone before his troops
>he still survives completely unscathed
Is this realistic? did this happen in real medieval battles?
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>The leader/king charges first into the battle into a swarm of enemies alone before his troops
>Is this realistic?
In this context, I suppose it is. This is their last hope, they want to make it seem as desperate as it is (it is desperate), so that if Frodo is still alive, it may help him. But in this very situation, this is Aragorn showing his men he's willing to die fighting and follow this plan to the end, and those who followed him to the black gate agree to die with him.
However, if the goal is to win the battle and manage different units throughout a whole battlefield, then no, the leader needs to be some place safe where he can see the battle and/or be informed by various lieutenants and dispatches.
No, but then this is essentially a suicide move where the leaders tactical direction isn't required. It's just a morale move.
the scene where he fights the troll is so fricking stupid
No
>casually parries two 12 foot, inch thick pieces of metal swung by a troll weighing 1500lbs of solid muscle with his sword
nothing personal sauron
Sauron is nothing but a spikey headed autist wearing an edgy Morgoth cosplay. He could never hope to defeat a Chad like Aragorn.
That sequence was supposed to be him fighting Sauron himself but they painted over the actor with a CGI troll when they realized how fricking stupid that was
As a kid I felt so cheated when I learned this, because sounded cool. Then I grew up and realized that, yeah, it's really fricking dumb. They made the right decision.
No, but in real life you win a war by winning a war and no king would just join his 7000 men to go commit mass suicide
It makes sense when that King is a Númenorian ubermensch.
The film in general had a lot of anachronistic elements. For instance, in reality orcs were a lot shorter back then.
>blocks your path
>basically invent the professional military
>lead your men from the front in multiple suicidally audacious maneuvers and nearly die on multiple occasions
>works every time
>conquer more of the known world than anyone ever could before and would remain unmatched by a single conqueror for well over a thousand years
>die of a cold before you can stabilize it, knowing full well that all your work will be undone by the 'trusted generals' surrounding you dividing it amongst themselves and probably knowing that one of them will end up killing your children to usurp the throne too
It's the journey not the destination, anon.
He was poisoned, purposefully or not. Look at his symptoms and then check out the local “cursed” river.
>Is this realistic?
No. Each, movie in the trilogy got more over the top Hollywood action style. To the detriment of the trilogy.
Caesar fought on the front lines during the Battle of Munda
yeah, thats what he said...Not to say that caesar didn't have massive balls but I presume all these ancient generals fought surrounded by trusted bodyguards who were ready to protect them from every angle and drag them to safety if things started to look bad. Sometimes shit happened and arrow or some other projectile killed or wounded the leader.
>Sometimes shit happened and arrow or some other projectile killed or wounded the leader.
Most famous example.
>Most famous example.
>Duke Conrad rode away from the combat at the Battle of Lechfeld, opened his maille shirt to cool down and got killed by a stray arrow
>Charles the Bold had his head split open with a halberd while retreating from his loss as the Battle of Nancy.
>John Talbot, Earl of Shrewsbury, had his horse killed under him and then an enemy archer ran up with an axe to finish him off.
Are you really going to argue that those are more famous than the King Harold Godwinson being killed in the Battle of Hastings?
Heck you could add Henry V who had beaten the French and was just about to take the French Crown only to die of Dysentery on the way.
It doesn't make sense that Kirk is always on the away team while being the Captain of the Enterprise, but the point is that it motivates the army/crew because they know they're fighting for a just cause
>Sons of Gondor! Of Rohan! My brothers!
>I see in your eyes the same fear that would take the heart of me. A day may come when the courage of Men fails, when we forsake our friends and break all bonds of fellowship, but it is not this day.
>An hour of wolves and shattered shields, when the Age of Men comes crashing down, but it is not this day! This day we fight! By all that you hold dear on this good earth, I bid you stand, Men of the West!
>...for Frodo
I nearly ran through the screen with Merry and Pippin when I saw this at the kinoplex in 2003 and so did most of the rest of the audience. Bros, will we ever experience such SOVL again?
I hold out hope that we do.
what if no one follow him and he run into the orc on his own and a orc stab him in the head and he was dead
It would be extremely painful.
For Frodo
Nice.
Embarrassing too, I’d warrant.
>For Fro-ACK
Aragorn is a borderline superhero armed with an overpowered elf forged sword, so it's not insane that he survived the fight with little damage to himself
>MUH REALISM
Please die
It's a fricking movie you dumbfrick Black person
>Chuds will say this then screech about RoP not following the smirlamirillom they'd never read or heard of until last week exactly as it was written
>muh RoP
Begone wretch!
The films have their faults but most people can agree that they were made with great care, respect and affection by people who were invested in the source material. LAWD DEM RANGZ is not the same.
Fricking hell.
RoP is not based on the Silmarillion tho, Amazon didn't buy the rights for it
Some leaders did go into battle on the front line, but didn't do so at the expense of sensible tactics or with a complete disregard to their importance. Generally they were fully clad in armour and surrounded by the best troops in the army so were basically walking tanks. You could argue that although he's lightly armoured that it's all mithril chain so it would take a lot to kill him (ignoring the lack of helmet). He's also basically not only near superhuman, but probably the most skilled swordsmen of his kin.
A lone charge like that? Not likely. However he's going against a poorly disciplined, arrogant force and could possibly hold his own long enough for the rest of the men to catch up. Not to mention he has a Wizard on his side and most of the magic Gandalf uses involves lightly buffing people.
>send basically angels to earth
>but they can't actually do anything
>and most of them are completely missing during a cataclysmic event for the world
>oh, but one of them will fight in battles
>but won't use magic, for reasons
>except for the times they do
I don’t remember who it was but I remember in school reading about some king that during a battle heard his men screaming that he was dead and he immediately got up and took off his helmet to confirm he was alive, and that was apparently extremely dangerous since he could’ve been immediately killed by a rock to the dome or something.
William the bastard
If he had the one ring he would
eru luuavatar was protecting him