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#21 {IP} Aridor

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Posted 25 September 2008 - 02:32 PM

That doesn't really make sense. It was a special fate of Eowyn to kill the Witch King with the help of a humble hobbit. The weak shaming and kill the one who thought he was unkillable. Pride cometh bore the fall.

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Posted 25 September 2008 - 02:51 PM

It was just said that "No living man can kill me"... me, being the Witch King... Not wraiths :thumbsupsmiley:

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Posted 25 September 2008 - 03:32 PM

But why doesn't Tom Bombadil kill that stupid Wraith that always bothers him... (Reference to the 'Adventures of Tom Bombadil')

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Posted 25 September 2008 - 09:08 PM

Perhaps women could do increased damaged to wraithes? Or maybe units such as the Witch-King should have increased armour against male units.

That is tantamount to wrecking havoc to the mod and its balances at this stage of its progress. Some helpful comments as well sometimes, please.

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Posted 25 September 2008 - 10:48 PM

That is tantamount to wrecking havoc to the mod and its balances at this stage of its progress.


That's not like wreaking havoc with the balance. That would almost definitely knock the balance out of wack, and only provide far more setbacks, due largely to the large plethora of units in the mod.

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Posted 22 October 2008 - 07:31 PM

:xcahik_: Calm down, 'twas just a suggestion...

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Posted 22 October 2008 - 08:56 PM

If you were in Japan and you were a samurai, or you followed Bushido, then you expected women to live up to the same values of honour and courage.



Bollocks. Samurai women were responsible for looking after the home, educating the kids and caring for the elderly. Women in the feudal Japanese system were always expected to be subservient and obedient.

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Posted 23 October 2008 - 01:44 PM

That doesn't mean they weren't expect to live up to he principles. You can still live with honor and courage as a housewife.

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Posted 24 October 2008 - 12:41 AM

Well, yeah, but it's really not as obvious if you're cooking... "HONOR THY INGREDIENTS, POTS, AND PANS?" I think not...
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Posted 24 October 2008 - 02:13 AM

Read Steven Pressfield's Gates of Fire. Then you will understand how a housewife can live that way. There is so much more to being a housewife then cooking and cleaning. Slaves can do such things, but only a real Woman has the strength to be a wife.

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Posted 24 October 2008 - 10:42 PM

well said my friend, well said.

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Posted 04 November 2008 - 03:05 PM

I once read in a book that the Men of the Deserts (Haradrim and Easterlings) train both genders of their people (male AND female) to fight with each-other, and I don't mean to get off topic, but... in their armies, one was legally old enough to go to battle when they were 14, meaning that they school their children in military skill with sword, shield, bow, spear, horse, chariot, and Mumakil until they are 'unstoppable' by the time they are 14. MORE AND MORE REASONS FOR M.O.T.D. TO BE EVERYONE"S FAVORITE ARMY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :p :p :lol: ^_^ :)

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Posted 04 November 2008 - 04:08 PM

First of all read this: The Elves, particularly the Noldor, preoccupy themselves with various things, such as smithwork, sculpture, music and other arts, and of course, what to eat. Males and females can do almost everything equally; however, the females often specialize in the arts of healing while the men go to war. This is because they believe that taking life interferes with the ability to preserve life. However, Elves are not stuck in rigid roles; females can defend themselves at need as well as males, and many males are skilled healers as well, such as Elrond.

that was elves.


In The Lord of the Rings Tolkien writes that they breed slowly, for no more than a third of them are female, and not all marry; also, female Dwarves look and sound (and dress, if journeying — which is rare) so alike to Dwarf-males that other folk cannot distinguish them, and thus others wrongly believe Dwarves grow out of stone. Tolkien names only one female, Dís. In The War of the Jewels Tolkien says both males and females have beards.

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Posted 04 November 2008 - 04:36 PM

There were thouse weird Scandanavian women who had beards. Maybe that's where he got the idea.




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