Who had the most powerful death in LOTR?

You tell 'em, Hernalt :P

What bmilder said.

What I want to know is, what did Hernalt say? :P

exactly

I think those were the two shortest messages by Hernalt I've seen here ever :P

I got burned out from Tolkien Regular™ and had to switch to Decaf. BOLTII is a denser, richer flavor, devoid of LOTR/Sil's heart-slamming relevance that makes the mind race ahead seeking corellation and permutation. BOLTII is sometimes a tea. No rushing, coursing sweetness of a warm over-sugared cup of joe, but rather a definate bitter thickness of words beneath the sweetness of lyrical description. Sometimes the sweet prevails, and sometimes the bitter. And a reflective cup because of its lost lore, descrying much farther horizons than its progeny. It's no wonder that "Lost Tales" are the perview of our grandsires - they stimulate our imagination with unrealized, unvisited realms, yet they are far removed from the potency of the passages in LOTR and Sil. BOLT is Tolkien squared, and yet Tolkien Decaf.

That's the single most kickass analogy I've seen on ezboard.

Hey, IronParrot. I saw you defending your name elsewhere. Does it in any way hail to the Parrot field rifles (smaller cannon) which were used in the battle of Gettysburg? Since Napolean 20-pound cannon (which were used in the battle) were diffucult to find after the war, the National Park Service had to use Parrots to decorate the landscape. So if you visited Gettysburg National Monument, you'd be surrounded by IronParrots! (Some were made of bronze, but stay away from them, as they tend to explode more easily. :-)

I knew of that, but not until after I chose the name. I don't remember why I chose "IronParrot" in the first place... goes way back I think... As for defending my name... I don't quite remember that - but if I did, it was probably on my world domination forum, no? Well, with all the posts I've made across the dozens of ezboards I've been to, I can't remember. Oh well.

It was only your footnote! I seemed to remember seeing some big discussion on the significance of your name, and it was right there under my nose.

Well, it's a thought.

I agreee w/ whoever said it above, Thorin. You cried for me? Awww, how sweet!

After critical analysis of the Lord of the Rings, I have come to the conclusion that the death of the second orc in battle was the most paramount death ever. Not only did it have a great emmotional impact on myself, but also it altered the sequence of events in the story. It was truly an inspiring epiphany. The manner in which JRR Tolkien vividly explained the death was by far the best work of art ever.

No...it was the loss of the pickles.

You rock.

...this orc deserves its own board! I had thought about that orc in the past, being haunted by its demise... but I was afraid that everybody would laugh at me... ... until dmaul broke the ice. Thanks dmaul, from all of us who were touched by the fate of the second orc in the battle, and hope you will dedicate a board for him. I know he would approve of it.

This is by far the most profound thread I've ever seen. I could cry.

*snif*

Boromir!