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The White CouncilRe: How tough were orcs, trolls, and balrogs?Tolkien and Inklings Discussion |
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The White CouncilRe: How tough were orcs, trolls, and balrogs?Tolkien and Inklings Discussion |
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Posted by Tamim on April 27, 2000 at 14:27:57 In Reply to: Re: How tough were orcs, trolls, and balrogs? posted by Michael Martinez on April 26, 2000 at 19:36:54:
: You ARE aware that Glorfindel of Rivendell was the same Glorfindel who killed a Balrog outside of Gondolin, aren't you? And he came back stronger than before, not weaker. I am not. Where is it said? snip : The Noldor were formidable warriors, and Elrond implied at the Council that they would have been the best warriors ever to take the field. But they still would have been insufficient to defeat Sauron at the end of the Third Age. I am not saying they could have done that. All I am saying, is that TA Elves were not as formidable as FA. I think it is said many times in the Silm that the elves wane in ME, it is said for example in the First prophesy of Mandos : ) Also it is said that in Arda marred everything high becomes low or something like that. The same goes for humans, not as much, but still. Usually the first generations are more formidable than their descendants. To me it just is ridiculous to say that the TA heroes were as formidable than the first age ones. Best fighters of both men and Noldor lived in the FA or before that. Tamim
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