[oxfordgamers] Re: Two Towers

        Too true, too true.  I remember Lucas saying he was never completely
sure that the muppet Yoda would work out until he actually saw it on film.  

        I now feel compelled to release my inner fanboy ; )  I think the
best outcome we'd see would be for Yoda and the Balrog to kill each other.
In all of Tolkien's history of Middle Earth there are only two times when
non-divine beings managed to kill a balrog, both happened during the fall of
the elven domain of Gondolin, both involved mighty elf-lords and in each
case the elf-lord died in the battle.  Even Gandalf, who himself was of the
same divine race from which the balrogs were created (the Maiar), died
fighting the balrog of Moria.  The only other time we know of balrogs being
destroyed is when the entire host of the Valar (gods) and Maiar (demi-gods)
came against the dark armies led by balrogs in open warfare and destroyed
almost all of them.

        Given Yoda's great power I think he'd likely share the same fate.
He would probably defeat the balrog but die from the battle.  

> ----------
> From:         Aaron Einhorn
> Reply To:     oxfordgamers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent:         Monday, December 30, 2002 2:39 PM
> To:   oxfordgamers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:      [oxfordgamers] Re: Two Towers
> 
> --- "Bolenbaugh, Tom" <TBolenbaugh@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 
> > That could either be Yoda from Empire Strikes Back or the rotoscoped
> > balrog from Frank Bakshi's animated Lord of the Rings ; )
> 
> Fine, be that way. :)
> 
> No, seriously, despite the fact that he is now, and forever more,
> digitally animated, Yoda, to me, will always be a muppet. To paraphrase
> Weird Al "He looked like a muppet, but was wrinkled and green."
> 
> :-)
> 
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