What route would you have taken to Mordor?
>Inb4 Eagles
They were pretty much unwilling to help and didn't give a shit about the plight of man.
>>70423954
The eagles helped at the end though, so they clearly care. I think Gandalf just thought it would be like cheating, and rob poor Frodo of character progression.
Anyway, I'd take a ship from that river near the Shire all the way out to sea, then sailed all the way to Minas Tirith from there. Or do you mean from Rivendell? I suppose you could take a ship from there as well.
>No Moria
>No moutain passes
>No Isengard
>Would be faster than to travel by land, arrive earlier
>No orcs to speak of
Only problem might be pirates, but I'm sure Legolas and Aragorn could deal with any of those.
Why don't just travel by the sea?
why didn't froodo just wear the ring and be invisible and just walk there?
>>70424077
Doesn't wearing the ring alert the Ring Wraiths to your exact location? I'm pretty sure it zaps your strength to some degree as well.
>>70424077
The nazicools would detect him easily.
Try the Gap of Rohan and hope for the best 2bh
>>70424061
we wuz pirates and sheeeeiiiiit
>>70424077
Baiting or literally a retard?
walk around those mountains
>>70424061
>>70424049
>storm comes
>ship sinks
>everyone fucking drowns because they can't swim
At least the Ring would be relatively safe on the bottom of the ocean, but eventually Sauron would still find it.
>>70424170
>relatively safe on the bottom of the ocea
With regards to the progress being made in Isengard, I don't think it would have taken long for Saruman/Sauron to get to it.
>>70424170
>storm comes
>Gandalf magics it away
>smooth sailing all the rest of the way
Saruman couldn't even summon a storm that far out, he had to have line-of-sight to Caradhras to mess the fellowship up there.
>>70424061
Not by sea, but I always figured a coastal route would have been pretty safe. Near the coast but not so close that anybody on the water would know you were there.
>>70424234
>coastal route would have been pretty safe
Care to elaborate?
>>70424170
You could say that about any route, faggot.
>enter Moria
>rock falls, everyone dies
>LOL ITS A CAVE-IN, WHATCHA GONNA DO??? xDDD
>enter Lorien
>earthquake all of a sudden
>ring disappears into a crack in the ground along with the entire fellowship
>attempt to ford river
>suddenly a massive flood
>fellowship gets washed downstream and all drown
>ring is lost again
>>70424274
Since you can just go ashore if a storm flares up.
>>70423954
Fuck this stupid eagles meme, the reason the eagles didn't fly the ring to Mordor is nothing to do with their disinclination to help mankind. It's because the Eye of Sauron would've seen them coming miles off and they'd have been shredded by the Nazgul.
>>70424307
My bad then, I thought you were talking about _walking_ close to the shore.
>>70424308
But they shredded the Nazgul in the end battle though. Wasn't even a contest, not a single eagle was apparently harmed.
And it's not like it's any safer just sending two manlets to do it all by themselves. At least with eagles, they could blitz it.
>>70424328
I actually was. The person who replied is someone else. Anyway I don't really know, it just seems like everybody dangerous is way further in-land focused on other shit. I can't imagine you being bothered too much on the coast.
>>70424336
>But they shredded the Nazgul in the end battle though. Wasn't even a contest, not a single eagle was apparently harmed.
Did you even think about this shit before you posted it?
I'm not even going to bother writing a decent reply for why your post is utter bullshit.
>>70424384
Alright then. I think the the south of Gondor was pretty much fucked up too though.
>>70423954
This one.
>>70424416
pretty good
Just take the High Pass. No reason to make it complicated.
>>70424061
The pirates south of Gondor pretty much rule the sea. The Gondor coast is pretty abandoned because of it. It's the same set up as what happened in the 14th to 18th century spain where entire stretches of the coast were abandoned thanks to the Barbary pirates.
>>70423954
Go North and keep fucking going forever
>going by sea
Remember those pirates Aragorn and his ghost friends took out in the third movie? Yeah, they would have fucked up the fellow...ship.
Dangerous regardless of the route.
>>70423954
round trip with side quests
>>70424489
The pirates got fucked up easily though. No way they're any tougher than the billion orcs + Balrog the fellowship ran into in Moria.
>>70424482
May as well dig a massive hole or find some really deep mine and just toss the ring in there of that's what you wanna do. The whole point of the journey was to destroy the ring, not just inconvenience Sauron a little bit by taking it really far away.
>>70424049
The eagles were just as susceptible to the rings corruption. They would have likely took it for themselves.
>>70424519
They got fucked up because of the ghosts.
Aragorn wouldn't have had them if they went by boat.
Normally the pirates were great at what they do, a lot of the coast was abandoned, and Gondor barely had the forces to control inland.
Not to mention had the fellowship not been there Sauromon would have obliterated Rohan.
>>70424170
Sauron doesn't need the ring to win.
But the goodies need to melt it to win.
>>70424440
Nice route.
>>70424544
I would burry it on this little, remote island and cover it all with all the rock from those mountain ranges.
>>70423954
literally just follow the river all the way from rivendell to minas morgul
>>70424764
>burry it
And then what? Wait for Sauron to conquer everyone and everything?
What about the men of the east? Why didn't they intervene in the war?
>>70425333
They fought for Sauron
I'd just follow the fucking road...
reminder
>>70424416
>walking through Rhun
>walking through, or on the border to, the Easterling realm
>walking through Mordor all the way from the east
Might as well give the ring to the Wraiths in the Shire and get it over with
>>70423954
bribe the ring wraiths desu
Just put the ring in a metal box full of stones and drop it out at sea.
Just put the ring on one of Gandalf's rockets and fly it into space.
>go to the Gray Haven
>take a boat to the Undying Lands
>chill with the Valar for all eternity
I'd love to see Sauron try to get his ring back from there
I'd like a comfy as fuck, next-gen, Middle Earth mmorpg.
>>70425877
Can you please stop talking, thanks.
They couldn't have made it more clear why that's not an option, they literally explained it to the audience.
>>70425959
Valar would tell you to not bring that shit to them and to go back. Also only allowed there if you're an elf, anything less and it's Tol Erressea for the rest of your days.
>>70426012
>You'll never go back to days of Litch King era WoW
>>70426012
LOTRO's world is so fucking big and well crafted. Shame about the rest of the game.
And there's never EVER going to be a sequel, it'll probably get shut down instantly when they finish up the story and they'll get put on making a Marvel Heroes ripoff for DC or some junk like that.
>>70426012
I'd honestly like an original setting with the same historical style aesthetic that Weta Workshop created for the films.
>>70426853
Fuck lotro, they should just make a decent sequel to neverwinter nights. The single best fantasy RPG here has ever been
>>70424416
>going through spider woods
>going that near Dol Guldur
Dig a hole straight into Mordor.
Forcing Gandalf to help, the fucking cunt.
Tells Frodo the ring is dangerous as fuck, then just bails to go fuck around.
>>70423954
The yellow line, change to blue line at Tharbad.
sauron btfo
>>70427040
Did we read/watch the same book/movie
What are you on about?
"It is a name of ill omen," said Boromir. "Nor do i see the need to go there. If we cannot cross the mountains, let us journey south-wards, until we come to the gap of Rohan, where men are friendly to my people, taking the road that i followed on my way hither. Or we might pass by and cross the Isen into Langstrand and lebenin, and so might come to Gondor from the regions night to the sea.
"Things have changed since you came north Boromir, answered Gandalf. "Did you not hear what i told you of Saruman? With him i have business of my own ere all this is over. But the ring must not come near Isengard, if that can by any means prevented.
"As for the longer road :we cannot afford the time we might spend a year in such a journey.
>>70424416
Very clearly that map is simply unfinished.
That mountain range would probably go on for many more miles. Remember as well that the travelers would need to stop sometime at a village to refuel.
It's very clear that many people in this thread either didn't read/watch or didn't understand the books/movies.
Everything that happens in them, all the detours are for a specific reason.
For example, Gandalf wasn't with Frodo for the first half/something of his journey because he miscalculated his timing.
They also couldn't pass the mountains as was explained when they attempted and were very near killed by the frequent blizzards.
>>70428546
the fuck is this webm? holy hell
>>70423954
>LOTR fags will defend this shitty writing
just admit it GoT is superior.
>>70428219
>travelling all that way and in the end taking the ring to Barad Dur
>knowing full well on the last day or so there is a huge volcano in your sight and it doesn't ring any bells
>"sauron BTFO"
>>70423954
Why did the Eagles save Sam and Frodo or help the humans fight the Fellbeasts?
>>70428546
Man, we really fucked those Nips up
>>70429209
>Game of Feminism
No thnx.
>>70424386
>I can't think of a response so I will just call you stupid
He is right. The Fellbeasts were held off by the Eagles and there are more Eagles than Fellbeasts
>>70424505
Kek
>>70428546
What movie is this?
>>70429339
Yeah but the Eagles could have been corrupted by the presence of the Ring when flying Frodo to Mordor.
Not sure why they would be LESS susceptible than the Fellowship... With great power comes great plot-convenient-weaknesses I suppose.
>>70424077
it doesn´t exactly make you invisible, only sort of transparent and the nazgul would have sensed him
Go to Rivendell, acquire buddies
Go south down river, in a small ship maybe
Avoid Saruman, avoid mountain range by crossing at the gap of Rohan
Then pretty much do what Frodo and Sam did after the fellowship was broken crossing through Rohan
Maybe get involved with thing in the area beforehand a little
>>70425609
Fucking degenerate pothead!
>>70429142
Le Homos in Literally Giant Cocks: The Mongolian SHadowplay
make a submarine
go along this route
>>70432192
why not just take the boat all the way to gondor, saving the walk, then up through shelobs lair
>>70432472
pirates
Thankfully no more movie related to middle earth will be made.
Christopher had the foresight to see studios like Disney run franchises into the ground.
>>70423954
Same route but I would have kicked out 3 out of the 4 useless midgets and added extra elf warriors to the company.
