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Old 04-07-2008, 02:15 PM   #125
Sauron the White
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from Rikae

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Here, you ask Mac if he thinks the railing would restrain Smaug if he "lost his balance". Are you arguing that Smaug would be just as surefooted in the process of landing as he would while walking? Sure, that's possible - but the point is, it is also quite possible he wasn't, and the this makes more sense in the light of the text itself.
Given the age of Smaug, given the number of landings he has executed in his long lifetime, given the very flat and wide nature of the docks..... yes Rikae, I think he would be just as surefooted in landing on the docks as he would walking across a bridge ... and I would add especially a bridge that he would be met with resistance upon.

from Bethberry

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Who stated we wanted to ignore the illustration? Who said we should pretend it does not exist?
Several have said to use the text and not the illustrations. Here is a very clear one.

from davem today at 2:12 on this very page

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So, forget the illustrations
and from davem yesterday

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As to the picture, it is wrong
I am pretty sure that if there was an illustration of 100 townspeople dynamiting the Laketown bridge it certainly would have been used to try and disprove my main point. But since the illustration by JRRT shows a substantial bridge supported by numerous and thick pylons and supports my point that it is not easily thrown down and destroyed we get the convenient call to forget the illustrations.
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