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1. Smaug flies over a town, letting out an enormous blast of fire, setting ablaze a large portion of the place. The fire shines light on his jeweled belly, and an awesome opera theme plays. Bad***.
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Until he gets skewered by an arrow and flops to the ground like a bowl of petunias.
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2. Chrys...well, he doesn't really have anything for an intro. Lame. That, and this being the internet, he has a make-shift Kevin Bacon factor to Puff the Magic Dragon. It's like a fight between the Terminator and Pee-Wee Herman. Chrys is going down.
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Ironic, considering in reality it was Smaug who went down and Chrys who stayed up.
The fight today isn't between Chrys and Smaug, however. It's between Chrys and Thorondor. Which is a shame, because the issue of either dragon vs. Thorondor is frankly a non-competition. Either one would just fry him mid air and be done with him. So why should he survive longer than either?
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So what's the alternative - to rely on others' opinions? That would totally defeat the purpose of playing in the first place if I didn't go by my own opinions. Ignorance? Maybe. Apathy? No. I do care. And I don't want a character that I'd never heard of prior to this game to win - that is my conviction. Sorry. Maybe it is "my fault" that I've never heard of them, if fault it can be called. But it is what it is.
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Well, you could try reading Farmer Giles of Ham. I mean, it's not unheard of for Tolkien fans to read Tolkien's minor works. I understand you feel a bit persecuted for your stance, but honestly, this is a Tolkien forum and when you loudly and proudly voice your ignorance of a Tolkien work, you're going to catch some flak for it from those who actually have read it.