[at-l] LOTR The Movie: The bad news.....

[The Lehmkuhl Family" <lehmkuhl@gte.net (The Lehmkuhl Family)]

yikes gonna have to read Silmarillion again....oh bother...
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Gary Ticknor" <garyticknor@starpower.net>
To: <woodelf@juno.com>
Cc: <at-l@mailman.backcountry.net>
Sent: Friday, September 07, 2001 2:07 PM
Subject: Re: [at-l] LOTR The Movie: The bad news.....


> I don't remember Tolkien ever making elven bows magical. Rings, stones,
> swords, daggers, cloaks, chain mail, okay. But bows? Please cite book,
> chapter and line. And millennia? It is unclear to me exactly how much time
> passed between the appearance of the firstborn at Cuivienen with the
> subsequent Siege of Utumno, and the coming of men with the Rising of the
Sun.
> Could well be less than millennia. After all, it was only some 600 odd
years
> from the revolt of the Ngoldor to the breaking of Thangorodrim.
>
> Without magical bows, Slowtoe still has a point. Although maybe they were
so
> good they could afford bad technique.
>
> - Gary from Fairfax
>
> woodelf@juno.com wrote:
>
> > So Mr. Toe, what make's you an expert on how elves use bows with magic
in
> > them? Remember elves were using bows for millennium before the time of
> > man...
> >
> > woodelf
>
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