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Author:  smeagollum [ April 1st, 2007, 3:08 am ]
Post subject:  Orc Running with the Torch?

Does this remind anyone else of the person running with the Olympic Torch? I thought this like the second time I watch The Two Towers...

Author:  Aredhel Ar-Feiniel [ April 1st, 2007, 3:28 pm ]
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Hehe sort of... it was just as glorious for the Orcs, that's for sure... :P

Author:  manwathiel [ April 1st, 2007, 3:41 pm ]
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i thought that either the 1st or 2nd time i saw it. i always thought that was very amusing....i acually thing someone mentions it in the commontary.

Author:  smeagollum [ April 1st, 2007, 3:45 pm ]
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I guess I will have to rewatch the commentary then.

Author:  Aerandir [ April 3rd, 2007, 7:19 am ]
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Yeah, I thought that the first time I watched it. :D

Author:  Lasbelingur [ April 3rd, 2007, 3:45 pm ]
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I didn't think that until I saw this thread. I now think,"Do only evil people do that?"

Author:  smeagollum [ April 3rd, 2007, 3:49 pm ]
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If they did, then all olympic runner would be evil.

Author:  [ April 3rd, 2007, 4:30 pm ]
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Yeah I noticed the similarity and it looks so comic although I'm sure it wasn't the intention! Also I noticed how the orc doesn't seem to be wearing any kind of armour or protection, which is strange since he has a quite important mission. I know armour is heavy, but still.. if Legolas had hit him in the throat or pierced his heart he would have died on the spot (why did the flawless Legolas fail in that crucial moment, by the way? :P).

Author:  manwathiel [ April 3rd, 2007, 6:25 pm ]
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acually, to me it looks like he is wearing armor. thats why legolas when for the neck.....if he wasn't he could have killed him on the spot

Author:  Aredhel Ar-Feiniel [ April 3rd, 2007, 6:29 pm ]
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No, but the arrow stayed in him. If he was wearing armour it would have ricocheted off of it... but it didn't. So the arrows did pierce him and it stayed there, but yeah... he should have been killed instantly. :blink:

Author:  smeagollum [ April 3rd, 2007, 7:01 pm ]
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Eä wrote:
Yeah I noticed the similarity and it looks so comic although I'm sure it wasn't the intention! Also I noticed how the orc doesn't seem to be wearing any kind of armour or protection, which is strange since he has a quite important mission. I know armour is heavy, but still.. if Legolas had hit him in the throat or pierced his heart he would have died on the spot (why did the flawless Legolas fail in that crucial moment, by the way? :P).


Another thing I really don't understand.. why Legolas, the perfect archer, missed.

Author:  Princess of Ithilien [ April 3rd, 2007, 8:08 pm ]
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^Because if he didn't, PJ wouldn't have gotten to blow something up. No, that's a lousy excuse...

They probably didn't want to waste armor on a guy who was basically on a suicide mission.

Author:  Lasbelingur [ April 3rd, 2007, 8:25 pm ]
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smeagollum wrote:
If they did, then all olympic runner would be evil.


That's not what I ment. I ment be a suicide bomer.

Author:  Shadowcat [ April 3rd, 2007, 10:32 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Orc Running with the Torch?

smeagollum wrote:
Does this remind anyone else of the person running with the Olympic Torch? I thought this like the second time I watch The Two Towers...


Yeah. I think people have spoofed it before.

As for Leggie missing... they had to breach the wall somehow. It happens in the book... doesn't it?

Author:  Princess of Ithilien [ April 4th, 2007, 1:49 pm ]
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Erm...I don't think that's what happens in the book at all. But I haven't read it for a few weeks, so I can't remember too well.

Author:  Aerandir [ April 4th, 2007, 2:05 pm ]
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Well, in the book, there's just an explosion and someone (Gamling?) shouts something along the lines of 'they have brought blasting powder from Orthanc!' or some such thing. It's not that big of a deal, in the book.

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