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Originally Posted by alatar
Strictly from the movie, what's a Maia?  |
Aint tha' loike them Aztecs, 'cept from Peru? I mispoke, Al. Nowhere is Maia or Maiar mentioned in the movie. But it is interesting that in
The Two Towers during the flashback sequence in the 'White Rider' scene there are specific mentions of a supernatural occurence:
'Through fire and water.'
(Flashback: Gandalf is battling the Balrog on a peak)
'From the lowest dungeon to the highest peak, I fought him, the Balrog of Morgoth.'
(Gandalf holds up Glamdring and a flash of lightning strikes it before he plunges the sword into the Balrog. With a final cry, the Balrog falls from the peak and lands, smoking, onto the icy rocks below)
'Until at last, I threw down my enemy and smote his ruin upon the mountainside.'
(On top of the mountain, Gandalf crawls a little ways and then collapses)
'Darkness took me. And I strayed out of thought and time.'
(The camera zooms in Gandalf’s eye and enters an amorphous realm of stars and whirling galaxies, ending in a blinding white light)
'Stars wheeled overhead and every day was as long as a life-age of the earth. But it was not the end. I felt life in me again.'
(The camera zooms out from Gandalf’s eye; he is lying, naked and very still, in the snow. His hair has turned white and his wounds are completely healed. He suddenly shudders with a deep gasp as life returns to him)
'I've been sent back until my task is done.'
Who completely healed Gandalf of his wounds (he looked quite beat up before his transformation)? He's been sent back by whom? Even if one discounts the lack of background information regarding Eru/Valar/Maiar, one has to get the implication that God himself sent Gandalf back to finish his task. Otherwise, what can you assume the script is referring to? Again, with such an implication, how then can we go from Gandalf defeating a Balrog 'of Morgorth' (who is this Morgoth, by the way?), being ressurrected and completely healed, breaking Saruman's staff and chasing away Nazgul on the Pelennor, to having his staff shattered, being unhorsed and cowering in fear to the WitchKing? It is bogus and utterly inconsistent. Silly even.
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Originally Posted by alatar
But the Witch King did have a shiny new helmet, and that's gotta count for something. And the scene that I mentioned, did we read that Gandalf tells Pip that the deadliest servant, "Ain't no big thang..."?
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I don't believe I ever said in this entire conversation that Gandalf treated his confrontation with the WitchKing lightly. But in the movie Gandalf did have a Hobbit with him. So, based on Eowyn and Merry defeating the WitchKing, I believe that Gandalf having Pippin by his side would certainly tip the scales in his favor.
Have I mentioned I have, once again, drank far too much coffee today?