• @[email protected]
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    What could be shoot that he didn’t already shoot? In the books, he already managed to fell a fell beast from long range. And it’s not like shooting the eye of Sauron with a sniper rifle would kill him.

    • @takeda
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      He did all of that with a bow, imagine him with a sniper rifle…

      • Mayor Poopington
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        it would be much harder to stab an orc with an arrow then shoot said arrow if Legolas was armed with a sniper rifle

      • @Blue_Morpho
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        Same number of kills just at longer range. Gimli still wins.

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        Honestly, it seems like he’d have about equal stopping and slower fire rate.

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      And it’s not like shooting the eye of Sauron with a sniper rifle would kill him.

      I agree, but I still think someone should have tried. Even if it didn’t kill him there’s a giant gulf between not killing him and doing nothing.

      This applies more to Voldemort than to the eye of Sauron tbh. Ofc he has horcruxes blah blah blah but if they just got an SAS sniper to shoot a 50 cal sniper round at him from a mile out - again, I’m not saying it would kill him but… would it have done nothing? All I’m saying is there’s a thing called due diligence and they should have at least tried.

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        Also it might be possible that attacking the eye of soron could blind him.

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    He shoot his arrow faster than he can reload a sniper rifle, and he took down a freaking giant elephant with a freaking bow and arrow! Recoil will just slow him down.

    And he mostly have to deal with load of uruks, an assault rifle will be better for him.

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    That’s an awfully thick book on the right to hold one page’s worth of material. Heck with a simple modification it could be one sentence:

    “Legolas fires the ring straight into Mt. Doom with an RPG attachment.”

    :-P

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    Why does he still have a quiver full of arrows?

      • @MissJinx
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        Frodo is a little bitch, give it to Sam

        • MacN'CheezusOP
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          Lord of the Rings but Sam has an assault rifle… and an armored SUV

          • I Cast Fist
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            “Time to TRIM and MOW DOWN Mordor’s orcish hordes!” - Samwise “The Gardener” Gamgee

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            I would watch this movie!

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            armored cars really only make sense for open areas, what they should have is 6-wheeled ATVs like finnish military messengers have.

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            110 months ago
            1. They can outrun the black riders.
            2. The black riders alert the witch-king.
            3. They can’t outrun the fellbeast.

            So yeah, pretty short. But if they are able to maintain stealth, then:

            1. They get stopped at Caradhras by bad weather anyways.
            2. They go through Rohan instead of Moria (otherwise they’d have to abandon the SUV or be very dangerous.)
            3. They outrun any of the cavalry that might try to stop them.
            4. They get through Minas Tirith months before the battle, no biggie.
            5. They get stumped at the Black Gate.
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              1. They call in Gandalf in his A10 Thunderbolt II (because the eagles didn’t have a 30mm GAU-8 Avenger). Drops a paveway on the Black Gate and dumps 1,174 30mm slugs and a few clusters of hydra 70mm rockets into the horde.
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          Frodo is the sentient equivalent of tying the ring to a snail.

          Jokes aside he is supposed to be exceptionally resilient to its corruption.

      • @Wogi
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        I’m kinda sad it’s a normal size rifle. He’s a Hobbit it should be huge

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    Or the eagles take the ring to mount doom… One page done

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      My party does not care for me at all.

      I’m an assassin not a crazed elf.

      What’s the difference. Well ones a job and the other is a mental sickness.

      Gibliy put frodo on the communication spell.

  • @DogWater
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    Reminds me of the sniper in saving Private Ryan.

    Put me within 1 mile of the furer, you can pack it up boys, wars over, we going home

    Or something like that

  • @Fedizen
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    Lord of the rings but the giant eagles are stealth bombers.

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      There must be room in the world for a high budget “Mordor vs USA” parody movie.

      Or maybe a 30 second comedy video.

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    I think it’s really stupid that Gandalf didn’t just super Saiyan every obstacle like is he stupid?

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    “What do your elf eyes see?” takes on a whole new meaning.

  • @SkabySkalywag
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    So did he shoot a bunch of songs and pages of description too?.. Cool, cool I mean I’d pay to see Tom Bombadil got shot in the dick …