Lord of the Rings - Aragorn's Horse
Discussion
OK, in 'The Return of the King', Rangers from the north come to help Aragorn and they bring his HORSE with them. Why the frell has Aragorn, who is known as 'Strider' because he BLOODY WELL WALKS everywhere, got a horse he never uses? Imagine how useful that horse might have been while slogging their way from Bree to Rivendell!
Everyone harps on about "why don't they use the eagles to take the ring to Mordor" but nobody ever asks about Aragorn's fecking horse kicking its hooves back in the stables at Rivendell.
In fact, I've just realised - why are the Rangers dragging this sodding horse, probably grossly unfit because its owner can't be arsed to ride it, all the way to Rohan, a land famous for, wait for it, its HORSES! Talk about coals to Newcastle (or lembas to Lorien).
Never mind your deus ex machina, this is more eqqus ex machina. Poor show Mr Tolkien.
Everyone harps on about "why don't they use the eagles to take the ring to Mordor" but nobody ever asks about Aragorn's fecking horse kicking its hooves back in the stables at Rivendell.
In fact, I've just realised - why are the Rangers dragging this sodding horse, probably grossly unfit because its owner can't be arsed to ride it, all the way to Rohan, a land famous for, wait for it, its HORSES! Talk about coals to Newcastle (or lembas to Lorien).
Never mind your deus ex machina, this is more eqqus ex machina. Poor show Mr Tolkien.
Errm, I shall have to say this very softly to avoid upsetting you further. It's not real....
JRR made the whole thing up, in his head, and wrote it down for the purposes of entertainment. Nothing about the book makes sense: the Shire is deemed perfect yet appears to have no viable economy, someone on the evil side clearly invents the steam engine then does nothing much warlike with it, why are they fighting with swords when they seem to have invented gunpowder?
It's not going to make sense in a real world context, because it's fantasy. And so what if there are a few holes, it's a massive book and we can't expect everything to slot into place perfectly owing to that. Just enjoy the ride while it lasts.
JRR made the whole thing up, in his head, and wrote it down for the purposes of entertainment. Nothing about the book makes sense: the Shire is deemed perfect yet appears to have no viable economy, someone on the evil side clearly invents the steam engine then does nothing much warlike with it, why are they fighting with swords when they seem to have invented gunpowder?
It's not going to make sense in a real world context, because it's fantasy. And so what if there are a few holes, it's a massive book and we can't expect everything to slot into place perfectly owing to that. Just enjoy the ride while it lasts.
MagneticMeerkat said:
Errm, I shall have to say this very softly to avoid upsetting you further. It's not real....
JRR made the whole thing up, in his head, and wrote it down for the purposes of entertainment. Nothing about the book makes sense: the Shire is deemed perfect yet appears to have no viable economy, someone on the evil side clearly invents the steam engine then does nothing much warlike with it, why are they fighting with swords when they seem to have invented gunpowder?
It's not going to make sense in a real world context, because it's fantasy. And so what if there are a few holes, it's a massive book and we can't expect everything to slot into place perfectly owing to that. Just enjoy the ride while it lasts.
Meh, JRR made the whole thing up, in his head, and wrote it down for the purposes of entertainment. Nothing about the book makes sense: the Shire is deemed perfect yet appears to have no viable economy, someone on the evil side clearly invents the steam engine then does nothing much warlike with it, why are they fighting with swords when they seem to have invented gunpowder?
It's not going to make sense in a real world context, because it's fantasy. And so what if there are a few holes, it's a massive book and we can't expect everything to slot into place perfectly owing to that. Just enjoy the ride while it lasts.
The flaw in your argument is that the steam power was invented a long long time before it was used for anything really useful.
Same with gunpowder. Also people fought with swords well after gunpowder was invented. In fact, bows were more powerful than early guns, they just took much much more training to become useful.
MagneticMeerkat said:
Errm, I shall have to say this very softly to avoid upsetting you further. It's not real....
JRR made the whole thing up, in his head, and wrote it down for the purposes of entertainment. Nothing about the book makes sense: the Shire is deemed perfect yet appears to have no viable economy, someone on the evil side clearly invents the steam engine then does nothing much warlike with it, why are they fighting with swords when they seem to have invented gunpowder?
It's not going to make sense in a real world context, because it's fantasy. And so what if there are a few holes, it's a massive book and we can't expect everything to slot into place perfectly owing to that. Just enjoy the ride while it lasts.
Meh, JRR made the whole thing up, in his head, and wrote it down for the purposes of entertainment. Nothing about the book makes sense: the Shire is deemed perfect yet appears to have no viable economy, someone on the evil side clearly invents the steam engine then does nothing much warlike with it, why are they fighting with swords when they seem to have invented gunpowder?
It's not going to make sense in a real world context, because it's fantasy. And so what if there are a few holes, it's a massive book and we can't expect everything to slot into place perfectly owing to that. Just enjoy the ride while it lasts.
The flaw in your argument is that the steam power was invented a long long time before it was used for anything really useful.
Same with gunpowder. Also people fought with swords well after gunpowder was invented. In fact, bows were more powerful than early guns, they just took much much more training to become useful.
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