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Re: The Hobbit.
Posted: Thu Jan 02, 2014 5:28 pm
by Evening
Nothing wrong with assuming elvish steel retains a razor shape edge and cuts through unarmoured orcs' (or any) necks 'like butter'. Although if Tauriel is doing it, I'm completely against it.
Re: The Hobbit.
Posted: Thu Jan 02, 2014 6:30 pm
by Stormcrow
Evening wrote:Nothing wrong with assuming elvish steel retains a razor shape edge and cuts through unarmoured orcs' (or any) necks 'like butter'.
Nothing wrong with that at all. In fact it demonstrates my point: Jackson goes out of his way to depict the gore of violence where Tolkien couched violence in ways to remove the trauma to the listener.