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hoho96:

--- Zitat von: Faramir The Gentle am 21. Feb 2016, 13:48 ---
--- Zitat von: Fredius am 20. Feb 2016, 23:02 ---Aye agreed, they gave me enough reason to make them become my favorite army in the LOTR universe.

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Yes Gondor is my favorite army also, but what happened to the rangers did anyone of them survive?
What about the scene when gondor watchman was killed by an orc arrow even wearing plate armor? in Osgilliath

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The Rangers retreated to Osgiliath where many died of course :P then Faramir lead then back to MinasTirith where they joined the defence.

Believe it or not, plate armor is the worst when it comes to countering piercing attacks (arrows, spears, pikes,...). It is primarily to fend off slashing and stabbing by swords, but when you shoot it with arrows, if the arrow mass and speed is enough, the armor will most likely break (like throwing a knife at a cardboard).
Chain mail, however, was designed to counter piercing. It has no solid surface for the arrow to pierce, but act more like a net catching a ball, which minimize the damage to the soldier.

Walküre:
I was recently watching again some extended scenes from LOTR, and I particularly enjoyed this one. It's the scene in which Aragorn finally unveils the 'mystery' of his longevity. It's really smart how they managed to introduce us (indirectly) to Númenor and the 'Northern Kingdom' (Arnor); actually, albeit mentioning them glancely, we are told that Númenóreans were legendary Men and that Arnor was destroyed (in the war against Angmar). Very smart indeed, also because of the context of the very footage itself, which doesn't seem at all to be so solemn and mythical.
I'm literally in love with these very peculiar parentheses inserted into the film narrative  :)

https://youtube.com/watch?v=R9j7LFHmkO0
Do you have any other smart parenthesis in mind that you might want to share with us?
By the way, that soup/stew doesn't really give the idea of being one of the finest Rohan's delicatessens  :D

Walküre:
Speaking about extended scenes, if you don't have knowledge of them yet, this is a little compilation of some of the scenes that were ultimately deleted both from the final version and from the extended version of LOTR (they are thus truly deleted scenes, not just extended scenes).

https://youtube.com/watch?v=x_k8RTKGlg0
I think there are still many unseen and 'mysterious' elements that are somehow hidden about LOTR. Beside these scenes, there are also a lot of behind-the-scenes pictures and footage of other scenes and alternative renditions that were eventually rejected. For example, I have a very vague remembrance of having seen, when I was a child, a sort of LOTR art book in which there were authentic pictures of the Goblins of Moria in a forest, during the night (pictures that are likely to come from the official footage). In addition to that, I discovered that they indeed filmed a sequence showing the Goblins coming out from Moria (thus, the warning of Aragorn about the hills that would have been swarming with Orcs could be a hint) and entering the Woods of Lórien, just to be exterminated by the Elves afterwards (something that actually happened in the books).

But, probably, apart from the deleted footage of the Last Alliance showing more frames of Gil Galad and Elendil, one of the most known deleted aspects of the trilogy is the original plot regarding Arwen and the Helm's Deep Battle, according to which she and Elrond went to Lothlórien to discuss the war and she was somehow sent with Haldir to the Helm's Deep, in order to support Aragorn and the defending forces of Rohan. There are many evidences here and there throughout the Internet, but the most famous one is actually in the very The Two Towers!

You can see Arwen, dressed in red, riding a horse and charging the Uruk-hai away from the battlefield, after the arrival of Gandalf. It's really a very fast frame.

Walküre:
The ethereal Arwen and the brave Éowyn. So much similar in their kindheartedness yet so much different. This is something interesting I found out quite some time ago; a very nice ensemble of the most significant scenes concerning our two heroines, with the amazing music of Enya in the background  ;)

https://youtube.com/watch?v=Nki5pSXcmDI

The_Necromancer0:
What's up with rocks and hobbits? I mean they've got the accuracy of an elf and the strength of a dwarf. Is it the same in the books? My memory is a bit hazy.

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