The White Council

Re: Middle-earth Deathmatch

Tolkien and Inklings Discussion

: Lining up in the very dark corner is (in no particular order of hardness):

: 1. Gothmog, Lord of Balrogs : 2. The Lord of the Nazgul : 3. Shelob : 4. Gothmog, Lt of Minas Morgul : 5. The Mouth of Sauron : 6. Khamul the Easterling (2nd Nazgul) : 7. Sauron : 8. Ancalagon the Black : 9. Glaurung, Father of Dragons : 10. Smaug the Golden

: An din the white corner (again in no particular order of hardness):

: 1. Feanor, the Spirit of Fire : 2. Fingolfin the Valiant : 3. Hurin the Steadfast : 4. Turin Turambar : 5. Earendil Half-elven : 6. Fingon the Fair : 7. Durin the Deathless : 8. Beorn the skinchanger : 9. Finrod Felagund : 10. Beren One-hand

: The stage is set. Evil Contestants READY. Good Contestants READY!

: Choose your opponants and kick some arse!

: So then ladies and gentlemen - who's gonna win?

: : Padster

If we're simply going to match numbers:

1. They both get killed. (Balrogs are notorious for double-deaths: Ecthelion vs. Gothmog, Glorfindel vs. Anonymous, Gandalf vs. Anonymous.) 2. Fingolfin. (The Witch-king fled from Glorfindel... he wouldn't have a chance against Fingolfin.) 3. This might be close, but I'd go with Hurin, since Shelob is just a big spider that goes back and forth trying to crush people. He'd probably need to loan an Elf-blade to cut the hide though. 4. I have no idea of what nature the Lt. of Morgul is, but I'd still say Turin, since any Orc/Black Numenorean seems weak compared to one of the greatest of the Edain. 5. Earendil. This isn't even remotely close. 6. Fingon. Nazgul are afraid of High-elves. 7. Sauron, fairly easily. 8. Ancalagon. I mean, he can probably just start blasting everything with lightning and fire, and skin-changing won't do much. 9. Glaurung: he has a pretty good record against Elves: Bragollach, Nirnaeth, Nargothrond... 10. I'd go with Smaug: Beren didn't do any of the heavy work in the Silmaril quest (or so it seemed to me: being captured by Sauron, hiding on the floor in Angband, getting his hand bitten off, and eventually killed by Carcharoth), and I don't think he could stand up to a winged dragon.

So... white takes 5, black 4, and 1 no-decision. Fairly evenly balanced, I would think.

[And no, my name has nothing to do with Tolkien, even if it might look remotely Black-Speech-ish... It's actually in a debased form of Soruharva, which is another language in another world which I am researching.]