Best LOTR Battle

Which Battle did you find the best, greatest or coolest in LOTR?

  • The Battle at Helm's Deep

    Votes: 6 16.2%

  • The Battle at Pelennor Fields

    Votes: 13 35.1%

  • The Battle at the Black Gate of Mordor

    Votes: 2 5.4%

  • None of them

    Votes: 1 2.7%

  • I liked them all

    Votes: 15 40.5%
  • Total voters
    37
If you mean the movies, then I like the Battle of Pelennor Fields best. It makes some amends to Eomer for his getting left out of the Battle of Helm's Deep (which he WAS IN in the book). Though most viewers focus on the anti-elephant feats of Eowyn and Legolas, I thought it was cool how Eomer's businesslike spear-throw ended up stopping TWO of the mastodons.

Any reader of the book knows that the Army of the Dead only helped Aragorn on the southern edge of Gondor; their stopping the pirates was enough for Aragorn to release them, and he had living warriors to carry on from there--fellow Rangers, and local recruits. But accepting the "reality" of how PJ imagines things happening, an interesting thought arises:

Why did the Nazgul take no action to stop the Army of the Dead? The Nazgul were obviously the only servants of Sauron on the scene who would have had any chance of turning back Aragorn's ghost-soldiers, so why DIDN'T they at least attempt it?

The way I interpret it, Sauron didn't care if ALL of his own mortal troops present then at Minas Tirith were killed--provided enough of them survived long enough to kill the good guys' leaders, including Gandalf. (Sauron himself would surely have been immune to anything the Dead could do, and he only cared about himself.) I think that the Oliphaunt which Legolas ended up slaying was definitely ordered to go after Aragorn, on the guess that if Aragorn died the ghost-soldiers would stop killing Sauron's forces and vanish. This brings up another thought. None of the Oliphaunts/mastadons were shown as being attacked by the ghost-soldiers until AFTER Legolas killed the one that was menacing Aragorn. What this suggests to me is that, before coming to Minas Tirith, Aragorn had instructed his undead troops: "In order to avoid killing anyone on OUR side, you must attack ONLY those types of beings whom you see me, Legolas or Gimli attack." Thus the Dead left the Oliphaunts untouched until the sight of Legolas attacking one showed these beasts to be fair game.
 
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^I enjoyed reading the last paragraph. It was quite interesting. I've only read the FotR, TTT, and a little of the third book, so I don't know much how the book battle is in RotK.
 
I was talking about the movie battles Copperfox. In the books Aragorn didn't go with only Legolas and Gimli to Dimholt. He had an army with him. And the death followed them.
But when you look at the movies only, I think the Battle of Helm's Deep was the best. The Battle at PF was spectaculair as well but my choice is HD :D
 
Gorsh, this is a hard choice! Ooh, I know! Balin's Tomb. Whooopie!

Well, prolly the best major battle is Helm's Deep. They made it cooler in the movie than it was in the book.
 
Although I don't much like the battles,I chose Helm's Deep.I liked how the Elves came,and the children,and everything.
 
Strange to see the Dixie Chicks right next to a Tolkien reference. If the Dixie Chicks had been present in Middle-Earth, they would have gone around telling everyone that the war with Sauron was all the fault of Gondor and Rohan, that Saruman was a hero, and that Aragorn was the same as Adolf Hitler.
 
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