After watching LOTR during the snow days, it really underscored a major failing for me.
The villains never won a battle.
They lost the battle of Helm’s Deep. They lost the battle of Minas Tirith (pardon the spelling if that’s wrong.) They lost the battle at the Black Gate (ran away from it, actually, even though they outnumbered the forces of man by a hundred to one.) They lost the battle of the Ents vs. Isengard. Even when they did succeed, it was overthrown in short order. The Orcs made off with the Halflings, but it was the wrong Halflings and they got slaughtered later anyway. Saruman manipulated events in order to get rid of Gandalf in the mines of Moria, but he came back even more powerful. The Orcs took that port city, but that was taken back by Aragorn and his ghost army.
And Sauron, for pity’s sake, should have had guards on Mt. Doom 24/7. If that was the only place where the ring could be destroyed, wouldn’t you want the ringbearer to walk into an ambush instead of a clear shot at the lava flow?
Twelve hours of movies and the villains never did a dámņëd thing right. Sheesh.
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