Jorlem Wrote:I was honestly kind of bored with this chapter. The whole chapter is basically one curbstomp after another. I'm just hoping that when the time actually comes to fight Sauron, he pulls out some things that would be a complete OCP for the semi-modern military that the Uruks basically are now.I'd have to second CD- the point is that Center has inspired Saruman to create an OCP for Middle-Earth, and we're observing its use and effects on the world.
Besides, while it might make literary sense for Sauron to create something equally OCP (and thereby restore dramatic tension), how would that be possible? By this point in the setting, Saruman has been in Middle-Earth for about two thousand years- sent there, I might add, specifically to oppose Sauron. I'd say he would know virtually all that the Enemy can do (or, more to the point, can conceive of doing), and he's clearly briefed his Uruk-hai.
Look at the fight in Moria. The Balrog is powerful, beyond anything that Saruman's armies can contend with... but it is known to them. They understand it, its capabilities, and its limitatations, so it's hardly an OCP. If anything, it's an OSP- Out of Scope Problem.
I would not be surprised if the Uruk-hai continue to dominate the innumerable hordes Mordor tends to use against armies, as they were created to do... only to earn the personal attention of some Nazgul, or drive the Dark Lord to throw a(nother) Balrog at them.
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I've been writing a bit.