Beeple-beep beep! If Gandalf can beat a Balrog, why is he even remotely concerned about fighting goblins, orcs, or even trolls?
Beeple-beep beep! If Gandalf can beat a Balrog, why is he even remotely concerned about fighting goblins, orcs...
He cares about the little people!
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Even war heroes can die from colds.
1: fighting the Balrog was not a fight he was sure he would win, hence why he wanted to avoid it in the first place. And it did, in fact, kill him to beat it.
2: Even if Gandalf himself was somehow immune to goblin arrows, the rest of the fellowship isn't and he needs them alive for the mission to work. Gandalf can't do everything himself, and he certainly can't be the ring bearer without disastrous consequences.
3: Gandalf isn't immune to arrows. If he gets overwhelmed and stabbed, he dies just like anyone else. He can take orcs and goblins 1v1 any day of the week, but fighting an army is another matter entirely. His soul is that of an Angel, but his body is mortal.
Because his Hroa can be destroyed by hitting it with a stick hard enough, and that would mess up his mission.
It's like asking if Sauron is much more powerful than Gandalf or a Balrog, how come he got beaten by 2-5 Elves and Men?
Gandalf is essentially immune to arrows. He's got reflexes and skills that allow him to survive countless battles without wearing armor.
As far as I know, he's only demonstrably been in one, and he got hurt in it.
I'm not so sure about that. I'd put it up to the orcs being shit shots for the most part. Gandalf, for being a literal angel, still has the body of an old man.
The perception isn't exactly helped by the films. In the OG trilogy the orcs were decently threatening, but still mooks when compared to the skills of the protagonists. In the Hobbit trilogy they degraded into being complete and fucking failures enough to make Melkor facepalm.
If he was immune to arrows, he would not have to use reflexes and skill to dodge or deflect them.
He isn't easy to kill, but that doesn't mean he can't be killed by mundane weapons. Saruman, a more powerful wizard, died from a knife to the back and falling 40 feet or so.
>if humans can kill a bear why are they even remotely cocerned about wolves or rats or insects?
because you're actually retarded