Comments on: Cage Match 2010, Round 2: 8) Ged versus 9) Aragorn

By: Furrymoose

Furrymoose — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 06:44:13 +0000

Well, the round is over and I’m a bit disappointed with the results. I kinda wanted to see what the writers would do with a Aragorn vs. Gandalf match. But both ended up losing, so it doesn’t really matter.

By: tsur

tsur — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 00:34:10 +0000

Im disapointed of you,fellow fantasioneers.
for being blinded by the one and falling into the darkness.
for not seeing the logic tnd acting out of pure,unjust,destructive urge.

By: Catherine

Catherine — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 00:00:48 +0000

I concur, David. I expect there’d be a nice cup of rushwash tea and some plums from Ged’s orchard as well. Perhaps some lembas. No way those two would smite on each other.

By: tsur

tsur — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 19:48:26 +0000

actualy as the sword of the kings of gondor it might even have the name of the kingdom or the ancestry…or the names of all the kings!
this sword belong o-n-l-y to the king of gondor!
clearly its one name isnt enough to gane power over it…

By: tsur

tsur — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 17:56:56 +0000

i dont think anduril dosent knills for name wizards.
it has bean rebladed,so it holds lots of the narsils qualitys.
its like it holds two sauls…
its at least twice as hard to control anduril than anything else.like only the creator of a shade can unite with him,he cant control the unification of the sword.anduril-narsil is bond to its waver,which fills the space.
i dont think its even possible for ged to use two names at the same time…he only have one himself…
besides,magik of the middle earth is godly and dills with all the world.mostly you cant even sea it becaus it intervenes with the magitian. anduril can hold the power of the loyalty of the army of the dead.it can definatly beat one namer trying to get power over it.
ged can only name what he seas and cant create.
he can use fireballs,but then he must turn air into hydrogen to mantain it all the time-a preaty defecault thing.he must consntrate on many things.
aragorn only has to hide between the woods to hide,then surprise him to get clowser.
since ged is can onnly control his inviorment and summon,he has a problem at close range,wher massive earthquakes are not effective and hearts him to.
no magical barrier can stop abduril,its the swords nature.ged can only delay hes death using mud traps and spieky woods…
and its logical that aragorn has a small squad of knights with him wile hes traveling…
besides as i mentioned,magic in the middle earth is more rare and is engraved in the essence of things.aragorn knowes hw to fight magical beings.he have beaten most of the nazgul together!
it might not be seamed,but those craetures are as strong as small god,and like gandalf teou power isnt seen unless hes fighting a balrog there might is hidden.the power of temptaition,madnese and betrail…and he defeated them.
its true that like in middle earth,evil in eath sea is about fighting yourself to,but wile aragorn has to fight a wizard-he himself a warrior.ged dosent have to mach of combut expiriancr.

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 21:43:41 +0000

what if ged, knowing anduril’s name, asked the sword not to cut him?

By: Cy

Cy — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 19:16:53 +0000

OMG, Ged vs Gandalf would be AWESOME. Thus, Ged gets my vote here…

By: Drakey

Drakey — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 19:06:31 +0000

Ah, but if you’re going by true names… who says the sword is Anduril? Why isn’t it still Narsil? If it’s name changed to Anduril… then how is that it’s true name? I haven’t read Earthsea for a while though, so I don’t remember.

By: Zedaine

Zedaine — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 11:11:51 +0000

Very nice story from lakesidey. I voted already for Ged, but the story actually would change my mind.
It’s not 100 percent realistic, that the “real” name of Aragorn would be Thorongil, but then again, if one thing is true for the whole Tolkien-universe: Every character has a lot of names. Crazy old language professor, that Tolkien was.
To use that funny little detail and twist it around to be the decisive part of the battle, is a very nice idea indeed!

By: wpgembe

wpgembe — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 05:59:11 +0000

absolutly except not they’re up against the shrike they are up against arthur dent shrike,
i think you would need the hulk combined with superman combined with arthur dent to stand a chance, or Q he would have fun with this i think