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05-09-2004, 04:58 PM
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Regal Dwarven Shade
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Eeeeeeewwwwwww!!!!!
 Yes, this has been a fairly morbid thread.
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05-09-2004, 06:43 PM
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Pile O'Bones
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Don't forget Helm Hammerhand killing his rival (can't remember his name) with one blow of his fist.
 he must've been hella-strong! 
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05-10-2004, 06:23 PM
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Shade of Carn Dûm
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I was just reading that today, Garulf, and thinking we should add his name here: Freca.
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05-10-2004, 06:43 PM
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Shade of Carn Dûm
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Which brings us to Helm's death!
A cool death! *Olorin gets slapped by the Pun Fairy*But I don't like Helm. That was just uncalled for, even if Freca was a slimy character.
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05-11-2004, 06:50 PM
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Animated Skeleton
Join Date: Apr 2004
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As I was reading through this thread I just remembered one of the best and most shocking deaths in the LOTR. The death of the Witch king. The leader of the Ring wraiths and the Leader of Sauron's forces. He was pretty much invincable to the people of middle earth and yet he was killed by a Hobbit and woman Meriadoc Brandybuck and Eowyn to be exact. First he gets stabbed behing the knee and then the final blow to the head from Eowyn. It brings a tear to my eye. Tlak about awsome. Most of the deaths have been of the memorable good guys who die honorably but we cannot forget the deaths of the evil villains, who make the good guys so good.
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05-11-2004, 10:38 PM
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Fair and Cold
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I agree with Bethberry, Arwen's death really is worthy to weep over.
It wouldn't take a lot of special effects to film it, but it is one of the most touching moments in all that Tolkien has ever written for us. There is something about a woman's quiet, lonely passing that highlights how much the priorities of history are skewed. I think Tolkien clearly had a point when he reminded us that she was not be remembered. But, in a sense, it also makes her passing more heroic, evocative of the same emotion that a monument to the Unknown Solider might produce in us. I was also struck by the fact that she literally had to lose everything before she died, and am wondering whether or not this was highlighted to make her passing easier or more bitter.
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05-11-2004, 10:42 PM
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Regal Dwarven Shade
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I'd say both
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However, at the same time, I think it may have been easier to depart in the end because she had nothing to keep her.
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