• MacN'CheezusOPEnglish
        6•10 months ago

        Lord of the Rings but Sam has an assault rifle… and an armored SUV

        • I Cast Fist
          4•10 months ago

          “Time to TRIM and MOW DOWN Mordor’s orcish hordes!” - Samwise “The Gardener” Gamgee

        • @Sotuanduso@lemm.eeEnglish
          1•10 months ago
          1. They can outrun the black riders.
          2. The black riders alert the witch-king.
          3. They can’t outrun the fellbeast.

          So yeah, pretty short. But if they are able to maintain stealth, then:

          1. They get stopped at Caradhras by bad weather anyways.
          2. They go through Rohan instead of Moria (otherwise they’d have to abandon the SUV or be very dangerous.)
          3. They outrun any of the cavalry that might try to stop them.
          4. They get through Minas Tirith months before the battle, no biggie.
          5. They get stumped at the Black Gate.
          • @ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com
            3•10 months ago
            1. They call in Gandalf in his A10 Thunderbolt II (because the eagles didn’t have a 30mm GAU-8 Avenger). Drops a paveway on the Black Gate and dumps 1,174 30mm slugs and a few clusters of hydra 70mm rockets into the horde.
        • @Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de
          1•10 months ago

          armored cars really only make sense for open areas, what they should have is hexbikes (quadbikes with an extra pair of wheels) like finnish military messengers have.

      • @Shapillon@lemmy.world
        4•10 months ago

        Frodo is the sentient equivalent of tying the ring to a snail.

        Jokes aside he is supposed to be exceptionally resilient to its corruption.