The Secret Fire
Diverse, progress, change
Originally posted by vanice
I see what you mean, it's just that some of the examples you have given are the movie way not the canon book way. the sheild is something P.J made up. I don't know anything about the games but if he can do it there or not doesn't make a difference. he blocks the balrogs strike with glamdring, which is just as impressive, according to me. He doesn't heat up aragorns sword. he just drops it.
"it shone with a sudden blaze" the book says.
and legolas arrow doesn't burn up. but legolas makes a shout and shoots right up in the air. however, even if doesn't use fire to do anything of this, he still disarms three people, and I'm sure he could do that on the dwarwes as well. he did a similar thing do denethor in the return of the king. so he can disarm people, that's for sure.
The thing about tolkien and the books are that we can't really say what the people can do. It's not as in the games where you know exactly what powers they have. We can't really say what for example Manwê can do. Still I believe he would wtfpwn Gandalf. basing that on him being as powerful as morgoth.
1) That's the thing with this forum though, it's a MOVIE forum, not a book forum. So really our arguements really should only source from the movie. I struggle with this too as like almost everyone else here, I love the books.
2) That shield in the movie was just Jacksons visual interpretation of the text: Glamdring countering Burins bane's blade. Could you guys imagine seeing that massive sword being defied by Glamdring (proportionally that would be visually awkward and no one would accept it!). Cumon!
3) "it shone like a sudden blaze" This is tricky, as this line is a similie so Tolkien may have used it just to illustrate how it looked. But blaze is another word for fire, flame, flare, brilliant light, radiance, etc. So therefore if Aragon's sword was ablaze, surely he would not hold on to it!
4) I have no doubt that Gandalf could take on 13 miesly dwarves if allowed to use his full/true power. Might need some water in between kills tho 😛