The Weathertop Sequence in "The Fellowship of the Ring" is Absolute Shenanigans
It's not Aragorn's fault, but it kinda is
I am working on a piece for /Film at the moment (Top 10 Fight Scenes in The Lord of the Rings; I’ll drop a link when it publishes). One of the fights will be Aragorn’s harried efforts to ward off the Nazgûl at Weathertop. I had to take a step back as I was considering the sequence of events that led to the fight. It’s pretty outrageous.
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