Technology issues

What if Gondor or the Oathbreakers had rail guns or M1s to throw at Mordor? Or Rohan had B-2s to attack Barad-Dûr?

Or otherwise, just say that whatever was used at Dagorlad (3440 S.A.) was the best of pre-gunpowder technology. And that in 3018 T.A., gunpowder research was at its crudest stage. I thought that from Dagorlad, they might have developed gunpowder weapons to such an extent that they might have M1s or bazookas to throw at Mordor Orcs or B-2s to bomb Barad-Dur or the Black Gate.

1) then... Frodo would probably look like the guy in your avatar.
2) gunpowder just doesn't really fit into fantasy stories about elves, orcs and stuff, don't ya think...

um....middle earth would be in rubble?

I'll tell you that gunpowder was used at Helm's Deep. And secondly, F-22 pilot helmets are anti-glare and have an oxygen mask, which the guy in my avatar doesn't have. Imagine the Moria Subway, for instance.

oh bejesus.....

If the book had all that rubbish you said.....it wouldnt be LOTR it would be more like, lord of the guns, and set in space with jedi knights!!

and the one ring was actually the one nuclear missile??

perhaps the counter attack gandolf led at helms deep should of had Abraham tanks..

Maybe they should digitaly edit it soo all the archers are actually snipers and all the ocks have chop sticks....

Talk about a waste of time...

but...its not 😐

a waste of space and a waste of time answering to this pathetic post?!

There is no blasters in the scenario I laid out. The counterattack should have been of rail guns (still small enough to be carried over by infantry) and the rail guns could be dismissed as being magic implements, as would be all gunpowder-based weapons in Middle-Earth.

From what I know, the Mordor Orcs would have only have two occasions to capture the technology: either by capturing Minas ithil, or Osgiliath.

are you obsessed with the army and guns?

Running out of ideas for GOOD threads I see

Forget the B-2s, but I wonder what a Sidewinder would do to a Nazgûl.

Same thing a raging flood would do

What would a raging flood would do to a Nazgûl? It says that no living man can kill a Nazgûl. So who would fire a Sidewinder at a Nazgûl and still have any chance of destroying it?

Did you not see Fellowship of the Ring?

Of course not. Where in the movie do we see a raging flood hitting Nazgûl?

Well ur a hit dumb then if you cant remember. This post is pointless and it WOULD NEVER happen....it was set over 6000 years ago....they only made proper guns this century!!!! Get over it! (the flood (in film) was made by arwen....you might wanna wtach it b4 u post)

when the nazgul were following her and frodo to get the ring...