Physics and RoTK??!

[Lotrelf]

Originally Posted by tom the eldest

How about that the main characters are somehow is so competent that no single enemy are able to scratch them?or what about the good soldiers is so incompetent that even one small orc is what it takes to kill a lot of the good soldiers?

That's what I was thinking today. But the soldiers' deaths depend on other matters too. Perhaps they don't focus much enough, worry too much. And main characters are well trained and all. Soldiers are ordinary folks, while main characters are special. Aragorn, Gandalf, Faramir and all of them have something special; otoh, men fighting in the war are not.
I know it's just VERY bad explaination, that's what I can come up with now.