The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
Added 2020-10-05 01:41:14 +0000 UTCWatch it from this link here with me.
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Regarding Thranduil, he was a more sympathetic character in the book. The elves did not retreated there in the end. Also in the movies he was afraid for the lives of his soldiers. The thing is that elves are basicly immortal. They can't die of old age and disease, but they can be killed. Some of these soldiers are several thousand years old, and seen great many things. You can imagine how heartbreaking for them to loose friends and family they knew for centuries or even millenia. The elves were the major enemies of the Evil forces, but they became few in numbers, so over time this role has come to men, especially to the Kingdom of Gondor (which is the strongest kingdom of the free people at this point and single-handedly keeps Sauron at bay). The people of Thranduil fought against Sauron for thousends of years. But now they are few in numbers and forced back to the northern part of the forest, which was once was theirs. Generally very few elves remained in Middle-Earth, for them it is heartbreaking to see the remainder of their kind dying. Basicly the common men risks decades, the Dwarves and Dúnedain (greater men basicly who founded Gondor) risks some hundred years (they live around 200) but the Elves toying there with several thousand years when fighting against evil.
Falcon
2020-10-05 20:33:55 +0000 UTCThanks for doing this, mate. Sounds as if you're pretty busy. Don't feel as though you have to jump into LOTR right away, unless you're totally game for it; you can watch something else in the meantime. The end of this (and the beginning of the first "Hobbit") movie will make the beginning LOTR rather familiar. ; ) The Dwarves are basically a non-factor in LOTR, so you don't need to worry too much about them anymore (though you will learn a bit more regarding Balin - the white-haired one); only one Dwarf features in those movies prominently, and it's the son of one of the Company members (there was a brief reference to him in the second "Hobbit" movie). Again, try to get the extended versions if you can, but it's understandable if you can't. *You learn what happened to Alfrid in the extended version of this movie, BTW.
Byrd N. Hand
2020-10-05 17:53:19 +0000 UTC
