The Wolves that attacked the Fellowship - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

***Mister Underhill*** · 01-12-2001, 03:16 PM

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Re: wargs

I did not mean to suggest magical connotations with the word "sing" -- I was only pointing out that Legolas fired many arrows. Aragorn, Boromir, and Gimli all slew wolves in hand-to-hand(paw?) combat. There should have been dead wolves all over the place.

The dead were consumed? Like, bones and all, but the consuming wolves spit out the arrows "unharmed"?

Also, if you check the passage again, you'll see that the wolves fled and the battle ended very close to dawn. It's not like they went to sleep and then in the morning -- whoa, the wolves' bodies had disappeared. When and how did the wolf cleanup crew creep back to erase all signs of their fallen comrades?

They were more than apparitions, apparently. When Legolas shoots the first one, its body thuds to the ground. Boromir hews the head off of another.

Why was only one arrow consumed by the flames of Gandalf's heat? Clearly it's meant to indicate the flaming one that got shot into the wolf-chieftan.

The wolves were routed and fled. There's no logic in suggesting that they would sneak back to gather bodies and body parts.

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01-12-2001, 03:16 PM	#17
*Mister Underhill* Dread Horseman Join Date: Sep 2000 Location: Behind you! Posts: 2,744	<font face="Verdana"><table><TR><TD><FONT SIZE="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Shade of Carn Dûm Posts: 297</TD><TD></TD></TR></TABLE> Re: wargs I did not mean to suggest magical connotations with the word "sing" -- I was only pointing out that Legolas fired many arrows. Aragorn, Boromir, and Gimli all slew wolves in hand-to-hand(paw?) combat. There should have been dead wolves all over the place. The dead were consumed? Like, bones and all, but the consuming wolves spit out the arrows "unharmed"? Also, if you check the passage again, you'll see that the wolves fled and the battle ended very close to dawn. It's not like they went to sleep and then in the morning -- whoa, the wolves' bodies had disappeared. When and how did the wolf cleanup crew creep back to erase all signs of their fallen comrades? They were more than apparitions, apparently. When Legolas shoots the first one, its body thuds to the ground. Boromir hews the head off of another. Why was only one arrow consumed by the flames of Gandalf's heat? Clearly it's meant to indicate the flaming one that got shot into the wolf-chieftan. The wolves were routed and fled. There's no logic in suggesting that they would sneak back to gather bodies and body parts. </p>