Lord of the Rings...

[Eyry]

...for real?

All Frodo Baggins had to do was jump on the back of a damn eagle and fly to the Mountain of fire and throw the ring in.

It would have taken literally an hour to fly there and back...

Thanks for wasting my damn time J. R. R. Tolkien...

[astarothel]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yqVD0swvWU

[Eyry]

BAHAHAHAHAHHAA! I <3 you Astarothel!

[Hasbinbad]

zomg thats some serious wtfpwnage

[Stickyfingers]

Gandalf is one of the Maiar, they are only supposed to overlook and protect the people of middle earth. In this case, Gandalf is not supposed to meddle in their affairs, thus why Gandalf trusts the ring with Frodo and doesn't do it himself, the Maiar were sent by the Valar to assist Middle Earth against Sauron, not flat out defeat him.

[Hasbinbad]

Originally Posted by Stickyfingers [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Gandalf is one of the Maiar, they are only supposed to overlook and protect the people of middle earth. In this case, Gandalf is not supposed to meddle in their affairs, thus why Gandalf trusts the ring with Frodo and doesn't do it himself, the Maiar were sent by the Valar to assist Middle Earth against Sauron, not flat out defeat him.

Is this what JRRT is trying to say in that horrible travesty of a jumble of words called the Simarillion?

[Aarone]

Originally Posted by Hasbinbad [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Is this what JRRT is trying to say in that horrible travesty of a jumble of words called the Simarillion?

No, it's implied pretty heavily in TLoTR, and only directly acknowledged in his backstory notes.

And the Silmarillion is a horrible jumbling of editing, not words - for which Christopher Tolkien (and Guy Gavriel Kay, don't forget) get the blame! [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Shaun421]

Did the Silmarillion get changed/edited recently (within the last 15 years or so)? I have a copy from the 1970s and I didn't find it particularly jumbled. It's a hell of a book.

[Cronoclops]

Originally Posted by Hasbinbad [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Is this what JRRT is trying to say in that horrible travesty of a jumble of words called the Simarillion?

The Silmarillion is a fantastic story.Greater then LOTR itself. If you have the disiplen to get through the editing you would have the answer to your question.

No the eagles cannot directly interfere either as they are the servants of the chief god of Middle Earth who will not involve himself in this struggle directly. The battle the gods were involved was to throw down the true evil god <not Sauron> and that sank 3/4 of the world into the ocean. In short it's not EQ with insta travel or rent a windrider.

[Lazortag]

Frodo should have just gotten a druid to port him there.

Or alternatively he could have grouped with a Bard with selo's, it's probably faster.