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Dragonovith wrote: Special Elf Friend wrote: Dragonovith wrote: High King Ithilion wrote: I don't complain about them being overpowered. I complain about them being non-canon, per usual ;P

Ithilion, Discussions Moderator (Auta i lómë) 00:03, April 6, 2017 (UTC) Saruman had bombs and wargs at his disposal, right? So technically he could put a bomb on a warg, and that's a pretty good idea if you think on it. But it would make more sense if there was a suicidal Orc riding the warg, to guide it. Where do people get the idea that Saruman had lots of bombs? The books only record him using one and if you look at real history, when gunpowder was invented, there weren't people(much less sucidal wargs) running around with bombs and torches. One bomb was enough to breach the Deeping Wall, why would he use more? If he wanted, I bet he could've landscaped the whole valley with explosives, but then he would've lost a huge fortress and strategic location. By the way, are we 100% sure that Saruman's blasting fire was gunpowder and not some other kind of sorcery? Saruman would have to have been present to use magic. No, it was undoubtedly some device he created in Orthanc, of which he alone knew the secret. How, then, could he mass produce such an item? The armies of Orthanc did have other such devilry-

"Blasts of fire leaped up from below shaking the stones.'

-Helm's Deep

Flamethrowers? Cannon? Certainly not bombs. Blasting powder, as in Ithilion's suggestion? I cannot ascertain what they were.