Who knows their trolls?

[The Barrow-Wight]

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<img src="http://www.barrowdowns.com/images/posticons/redeye.jpg" align=absmiddle> Re: Who knows their trolls?

I don't see two sunsets .... I see two relatively simultaneous events that both ended before the same sunset. They were not sequential events, occuring directly one after the other, but rather battles that were occuring at the same time. Huor catches and an arrow in the eye and somtime after that Hurin fights the 70 trolls and then orcs finally wear him down and drag him away as the sun finally goes down.

But once again to the text:
If 'day shall come again' means its night, why does the sun go down after he says it? You are injecting a sunrise and at least 12 hours of unaccounted for time.

And while we're counting:
'...on the fourth day of the war, there began the Nirnaeth Arnoediad...'
and
'.... as the sun westered on the sixth day...'

There are four pages of battle between these days. But between the 6th day mention and the alleged 7th day there is a paragraph describing the battle of one. Did this battle last through 12 hours of darkness and then 12 more hours passed to drag Hurin to Angband and the the sun set? Not likely.

And let's not forget a point from my Balrog article that asks why a (supposedly) winged creature would need a guard of land-bound creatures. If they were also limited to night action they would be doubly useless as a guard.

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