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Old 09-05-2002, 12:52 PM   #1
Manwe Sulimo
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Silmaril NAZGŰL: Absent Without Leave?

Doesn't the Siege of Barad-dűr remind you of the War of Wrath? A whole buncha goodies getting ****ed off at orcs, rouge Maiar, and stupid men, riding in to save their kindred/kick some evil *ss, and save the world from the darkness of Melkor, at least for a little while?

During the War of Wrath, all them Balrogs and Dragons were killed (except those few who went into them grimy holes they call "deep places"), and a whole buncha orcs were, too. The same for the Siege of Barad-dűr...all them orcs were killed, and no more troubled Gondor for a few thousand years.

So, what about Sauron's equivalent to Balrogs and Dragons...the Nazzies? Where were they during the Last Alliance? They certainly weren't helping their master fight Gil-galad and Elendil. It could've been easy for one of them to do something like this:

ELENDIL: Alright, then, men! Get that ballista up here!

NAZGŰL: [SWOOP]

ELENDIL: (headless) Urk!

Methinks the Nazzies went AWOL to fool with some lonely elf-maidens.

Which leads (not very directly, though) to another question:

"How, if it was the siege of Barad-dűr, did Sauron get to Orodruin to wrestle with Elendil and Gil-galad?"

Don't worry, I was quoting myself.
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