Hobbit rockets never leave the ground. They use pipe-weed as fuel and, by T plus 60 of any launch, the engineers are all giggling on the launch pad eating funions as a quick post-elevenses snack.
That would explain why Gandalf likes visiting the Shire so much
when Gandalf said “Fly! You Fools!” This is what he meant
Silly me! I thought he miscasted a levitation spell.
This is what I was waiting for. You know the theory of the eagles and Tom bombadil having the power to save everyone and not using it? What if the reason they didn’t is because they can’t. As in when they enter mordor they lose their power. Whereas the hobbits were removed from the magical doings of the world and therefore somewhat immune. Even galaxriel was temtpted by the ring. Bobmbadil probably only has power in his forest and the eagles only showed up after sauron’s defeat but the eagles were on the spot right quick. Meaning they had to be close by. Which means they probably intended to be there and were waiting for wards to drop so they could help. Maybe.
There’s also the issue of anti-air defense in general. You can see those eagles from miles away.
Yeah, and the AA capabilities of Saruman would mean that even a highly manoeuvrable hypersonic cruise missile would have pretty low chances to get past, while the Sauron’s eye seems like it could mess with onboard electronics.
What in the heck is that graph? Abundance as a function of time?? What? But the data looks a lot more like some kind of EMR spectrum?
He knew Uruk-hai have air superiority and overwhelming AA.
Question, if I have an unbreakable ring, what cool things could an engineer do with that?
Well it’s interesting that it makes regular ringing/metallic sounds when it’s dropped(at least in the movies), so it is not inelastic. Which means it could be deformed if placed under extreme force but it would always spring back into shape. So I think it might be the world’s most powerful spring.
is there something useful that can be done with just ONE unbreakable spring?
It probably produce/absorb heat somehow when being deformed. Then, we use it to boil water, turn a turbine, and generate power!
