Missing Fell Beast?
 

Has anyone noticed that in the Battle at the Black Gate, only 7 Fell Beasts are seen? Eowyn killed the Witch-King's Fell Beast, but there's one other missing. I'm hoping that Gondorian Longbowmen shot it down.

I wonder if the one Faramir shot in Osgiliath ended up dying. Possibility? Or Sauron kept one back as a personal guard to his tower :p .

Oh yeah, yet another way for the invincible named characters to take the action away from the rank-and-file. :mad:

ah ha!

This ties in with my post the other day defending (somewhat) jackson having Frodo show the Ring to the Nazgul and fell beast at Osgiliath.

I surmised that the reason Sauron does not find out that a Hobbit has the Ring in Osgiliath is that Faramir shot down the fell beast and it's Rider was therfore riderless and unable to quickly return to Mordor to inform Sauron of the news.

This ties in with 7 nazgul at the black gate.

Legolas shot one down in the books...

He did, but I'm talking about the movies, where just about all of the secondary characters (like Beregond) were eliminated.

yeah but then you'd have about 500 characters in the film and this just wouldn't work for the average movie goer, and even die hard book readers might have problems remembering who's who when it comes to secondary characters.

Oh get real. there would only be 8 to 10 minor characters to keep track of.

Neurion, please refrain form belittling the coherently explained views of others. Discussions here should be conducted in the spirit of politeness and civility.

Sorry. My apologies.

(Though I consider the assertion of "500 characters" to be a tremendous exageration)

no worries. welcome to the downs by the way.

I wonder if anyone does have a character count, major and minor, for the whole (book) trilogy? No doubt it would be less than 500, but I reckon it runs into the hundreds (ie those with speaking parts or actually named as characters in the book)

Originally posted by Neurion:
Originally posted by Essex:
I don't know of anyone with a full character count, but I went through FotR real quickly & found quite a few characters that either were not mentioned in the movies, or did not recieve any real recognition (ie: the alleged Ted Sandyman in the Green Dragon in the FotR EE).
key: a plus sign=deserving of mention/important to the story or someone that affects the story in some way (not just a name given in a history or song)




Of course I've probably left out some, but by my count that's about 100 extra characters that weren't put in the movie, with a little over 45 of those being deserving of mention for one reason or another. And this is just a list of FotR's characters :eek:.

Estel, don't forget old mayor Will Witfoot :) .
There's a handful from Gondor that are missing in ROTK. (Not saying that I'm dissapointed in them not being there).

Imrahil
Forlong
Duinhir
Duilhin
Derufin
Golasgil
Hurin
Dervorin
Beregond
Hirluin
Earnur (mentioned)
Ioreth
Ingold
Hurgon

Others:
Halbarad
Ghan-buri-ghan
Thain Paladin

These two I don't remember being in the movies, but I'm not sure:

Damrod
Anborn

Just a couple from The Two Towers:

Fimbrethil
Quickbeam
Fladrif
Erkenbrand
Eomer (just joking, ha)

Ioreth is in RotK.

BTW, just watched it again today and there are in fact 6 Fell Beasts left. ;)

Um, excuse me...
 

Estel, your above list stated that Balin was not mentioned in FOTR and should have been. However, Gimli mentions him as being his cousin just before the Crebain appear and they do visit his tomb in Moria where Gandalf identifies him as Lord of Moria.

Wow, I can't believe I forgot that! Oh well, thanks Meneltarmacil, I'll edit my list. :)

She's in the film? I don't remember hearing her prattle on as she does in the book! Where is she?