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- Rowanberry
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Well, this thread has been osgiliated anyway...
The Black Riders' gear may look a bit heavy for an immaterial being, but I don't find it quite as wrong as you obviously do - in the book, at Weathertop, Aragorn finds the footprints made by "many booted feet" just a couple of days earlier.
In a manuscript quoted in Hammond and Scull's The LOTR: A Reader's Companion, it turns out that it really was two of the Ringwraiths that attacked the PP.solicitr wrote:PJ blew it big-time by including that gratuitous hobbit-head-lopping, and equipping them with steel gauntlets and sollerets and swords, and (mistakenly) having the RW attack the Prancing Pony.
The Black Riders' gear may look a bit heavy for an immaterial being, but I don't find it quite as wrong as you obviously do - in the book, at Weathertop, Aragorn finds the footprints made by "many booted feet" just a couple of days earlier.
See the world as your self.
Have faith in the way things are.
Love the world as your self;
then you can care for all things.
~ Lao Tzu