Board Thread:General Mod Discussion/@comment-25987328-20160413230109/@comment-25101690-20160415180318

69.242.54.218 wrote: The reason I hate the battle of the five armies is because they made battle so extreme and added so much stuff and it took up most of the movie when it didn't in the book. Actually, they made the battle far less extreme than it was in lore. The real battle, as told in different books from Tolkien, was a desparate last stand that was only closely won. The battle in the movies was like a badass contest where elves and dwarves and all the "heroes" showed to each other how awesome they are. In the end the fellowship of dwarves was bored af by the battle and decided to attack the enemy leader plus their reserve force completely on their own, without any warriors as escort. Bilbo could instakill heavily armoured orcs by throwing rocks. Pretty much every elven warrior could just swing around with a blade in each hand and 5 orcs drop dead around him. When the giant eagles arrived, they seemed pretty useless because the dwarves had enough plot armour to survive many more orcs.