he lost his physical form when isildur chopped his ring off. pretty much all of his power was bound up in the ring so that he could control the others.
and why is sauron a giant eyeball that can't go anywhere and how does destroying the one ring kill him?
I also liked how Gandalf was able to summon a bird to pick him up off that tower when he could have had it pick up Frodo and carried him to Mordor from the beginning.
aweful lot of crying in the movie too, i'd cry too knowing Gandalf was an idiot.
Until the Nazgul had been drawn out of Mordor, an eagle would never have made it to Mount Doom (and the eagle would know it, so that it would be unwilling to try). Even if it had, Sauron would have been alerted and would be exerting all his power on the ringbearer, so that they would not have had the willpower to destroy the ring.
The ringbearer would have been Frodo, and Frodo was already subject to the power of the ring by the time Gandalf figured things out. For anyone else to have the ring would mean they had taken it from Frodo by force, something the wise would not have done. Not just because of what it would do to Frodo, but also because of what it would do to them.
A sneak attack was the only chance.
It would have really sucked when Isildur cut the ring from Sauron.If Sauron put the one ring on his junk, what would happen?
They could have also just catapulted it into the volcano. Need a really good aim though, only have one shot at that. Or Catapult Frodo over the volcano so he can drop it at the right moment.
I can't seem to find that youtube video now, but there's always this one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yqVD0swvWU
The nine were up north on horseback when Gandalf figured out what the ring was.Correct. The whole "Let the eagles do it" crap wouldn't work as they would be seen coming and killed. Pretty obvious.
sauron made the rings and gave it to idiots that thought would make them overpowered
he lost his physical form when isildur chopped his ring off. pretty much all of his power was bound up in the ring so that he could control the others.
Until the Nazgul had been drawn out of Mordor, an eagle would never have made it to Mount Doom (and the eagle would know it, so that it would be unwilling to try). Even if it had, Sauron would have been alerted and would be exerting all his power on the ringbearer, so that they would not have had the willpower to destroy the ring.
The ringbearer would have been Frodo, and Frodo was already subject to the power of the ring by the time Gandalf figured things out. For anyone else to have the ring would mean they had taken it from Frodo by force, something the wise would not have done. Not just because of what it would do to Frodo, but also because of what it would do to them.
A sneak attack was the only chance.
I remember when one of the movies came out I heard a radio story (on NPR, maybe) that they had tried some sort of new AI for the fight scenes, so they might look more realistic. They tried to make the combatants intelligent and to have some free will.
They had to make some adjustments to the program because some of the combatants decided they did not want to fight and ran off. They also had a small problem with traitors who turned on their own army.
Can anyone confirm this?
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