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Second-guessing and Misunderstanding Tolkien

If Gandalf was very hard pressed by the nazguls on weathertop while using Narya, then how come Aragorn relatively easily fought off the 5 nazguls, while protecting Frodo against the witch king himself with just a torch? Isn’t that a bit inconsistent?

It annoys me to no end when people conflate the movies with the book, as if they're one and the same. Does Gandalf ever even fight the Nazgûl in the movies, other than the losing encounter against the Witch-king? Even in the extended editions?
 
Here's one straight out of the gutter:

In Lord Of The Rings, why doesn't Aragorn allow himself to have fun with Eowyn and sleep with her when she clearly wants his affections and is a beautiful woman?

I actually remember answering that one... I was SO ticked off.
 
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Why was Sauron so easily defeated by Isildur? Why didn't he exercise more caution wearing the Ring into battle?

One of the more annoying misconceptions perpetrated by the movies 😡
Bling is meant to be ostentatiously displayed; that is its entire raison d'être,.
The One Ring is the ultimate bling ** so of course Sauron, a narcissist's narcissist, is going to make certain everyone knows he is ME's non·pareil in accessorizing.
**You are encouraged to notice and "Like" the exquisite rhyming in that phrase.
 
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To answer in rpg terms:
Because when all 9 are together, they get a huge bonus on all stats.
 

Why is the climax of the LOTR book (Gollum falling into the Mount of Doom) so short? I expected a more epic or complex plot.​


You related to Peter Jackson, maybe his nephew? He paid you to ask that, right?
Maybe a literal "cliff-hanger" scene would have been soooooooo much more "epic" 🙄.
 
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