Well done Rohan, well done. HOWEVER

WITNESS ME
>elephant noises

>>79829940
*attacks their flanks with mounted archers*

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>>79829940
Well done, elephants, well done. HOWEVER

>charging the mumakil rather than falling back and regrouping

what exactly was their endgame?

>>79829940
And they STILL got BTFO

>>79830082

I think the Two Towers made it pretty clear Theoden was not much of a strategist

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>>79830045

>bringing elephants to a ghost fight

>>79829940

The CGI still holds up after 15 years when some movie made last year look worse
What magic is this?

>>79830082
>regrouping
>when one elephaant can kill your entire army without a legolas
theodan did nothing wrong

>>79830150

I mean, I dunno. It's not exactly Theoden's fault that literally the only fortification in the entire realm was built into a corner and without a number of really basic defensive features. What would you have done?

>>79830212
It's amazing how timeless something can look if you put effort into it

>>79830212
>>79830212
those movies hit the sweet spot when CGI was good enough to emulate real life, but not so cheap and developed when it could be used for anything, so when they made something CGI, they put as much work in it as they did with practical effects. you won't see it now because accountants make movies these days

>>79830082
If you read actual historic battles where the enemy has elephants they charged as well.

Why did men fight for sauron?

>>79833220
they were muslims

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>>79829940
How did they afford the oliphaunts? Did they catch them or purchase them from a breeder? Were they paid for by taxes? If so, what was their tax policy?

>>79831098
I can understand why that might have worked, because we're talking about real elephants and not the middle earth version that's six times as big.

>>79830872
A lot of their cgi was based on built models as well, not from a scratch so it didn't have that computer shine of modern stuff, which fit in with the tone and backgrounds of lotr

>>79833220
They were convinced he would win and would rather be on his good side.