cakediva
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Post by cakediva on Jan 24, 2020 17:03:51 GMT
as background noise while you work, you begin to ponder things. How is it that Legolas never runs out of arrows? After all the elves in blue capes came to help Rohan in Two Towers, where did they go? Why didn't they stay to help Gondor?  |
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Post by crimsoncat05 on Jan 24, 2020 17:22:53 GMT
 I think all of us (everyone whose watched these movies over and over, at least) have wondered the VERY same things! I always figured the 'arrow thing' must be some sort of Elf magic... but then in one of the Hobbit movies, he actually reaches back to get an arrow and the quiver is EMPTY! (maybe super-fans complained about the magically-regenerating arrows, so Peter Jackson fixed it when he made the Hobbit movies, lol.) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Personally, I don't like the way the Hobbit movies end, with Thranduil telling Legolas to 'go seek out the one they call Strider... as to his true name, THAT you must discover for yourself.' This is the thing I wonder about. Because if Strider is already out there, the timeline doesn't work out, in my opinion. Bilbo is getting ready to celebrate his 111th birthday at the beginning of LOTR, and it seems like a lot more time would have passed between the events in Hobbit and the events in LOTR. (unless Strider is a baby at the end of the Hobbit and is like, a well-preserved 60-something years old at the beginning of LOTR!  )
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Post by deshacrafts on Jan 24, 2020 17:41:42 GMT
I think all of us (everyone whose watched these movies over and over, at least) have wondered the VERY same things! I always figured the 'arrow thing' must be some sort of Elf magic... but then in one of the Hobbit movies, he actually reaches back to get an arrow and the quiver is EMPTY! (maybe super-fans complained about the magically-regenerating arrows, so Peter Jackson fixed it when he made the Hobbit movies, lol.) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Personally, I don't like the way the Hobbit movies end, with Thranduil telling Legolas to 'go seek out the one they call Strider... as to his true name, THAT you must discover for yourself.' This is the thing I wonder about. Because if Strider is already out there, the timeline doesn't work out, in my opinion. Bilbo is getting ready to celebrate his 111th birthday at the beginning of LOTR, and it seems like a lot more time would have passed between the events in Hobbit and the events in LOTR. (unless Strider is a baby at the end of the Hobbit and is like, a well-preserved 60-something years old at the beginning of LOTR! ) I thought I remembered that he was pretty old in LOTR, so I looked it up, he was 87! The Fellowship of the Ring Aragorn, going by the nickname "Strider", was then 87-years-old, nearing the prime of life for one of Númenórean descent. With Aragorn's help the Hobbits escape the pursuing Nazgûl and reach Rivendell. |
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Post by crimsoncat05 on Jan 24, 2020 17:56:29 GMT
Aragorn, going by the nickname "Strider", was then 87-years-old, nearing the prime of life for one of Númenórean descent. With Aragorn's help the Hobbits escape the pursuing Nazgûl and reach Rivendell. thank you! Then he WAS very well-preserved, lol!! |
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Post by anxiousmom on Jan 25, 2020 16:55:52 GMT
Not really apropos to the conversation, but back in the 70's my 1/2 hippie mom drove a vw van named Stryder. |
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Post by underwatermama on Jan 25, 2020 17:47:57 GMT
I asked my DH (who read all the books, etc0 the arrow question and he said it was magic too and that why he never ran out. Was there something going on with the magic in the movie when he ran out of arrows? I can't remember any more...
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Post by tuva42 on Jan 26, 2020 19:07:24 GMT
Pretty sure they did stay and help Gondor.
Though the movies to stray pretty far from the book. Legolas is not actually even mentioned in The Hobbit.
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