ROTK Possible Spoiler: Catapult Question

[Cusm]

The title warns of possible spoiler so I am not tagging this.

During the battle at Gondor, we see the trolls loading the catapults with boulders and other debris. But who and what is loaded in the catapults in Gondor? It looked like they were flinging debris from the Orc catapult assault, but who or how did the men of Gondor load said debris so quickly?

[Daytrip]

i was wondering the same thing.........some of those pieces where huge, and i don't see how men could have loaded them.

also the orc's where using catapults which hurl large objects, but the men of Gondor where using trebuchets which are for hurling small objects at high speeds. no way could a trebuchet hurl objects that large

[rushmore223]

Originally posted by Daytrip
i was wondering the same thing.........some of those pieces where huge, and i don't see how men could have loaded them.

also the orc's where using catapults which hurl large objects, but the men of Gondor where using trebuchets which are for hurling small objects at high speeds. no way could a trebuchet hurl objects that large

Yeah, I noticed this too. I think it is one instance where they allowed the look of something in the film to defy logic/physics or whatever. On whole though, it is something small and I think forgiveable.

[talemyn]

Originally posted by Daytrip
i was wondering the same thing.........some of those pieces where huge, and i don't see how men could have loaded them.

also the orc's where using catapults which hurl large objects, but the men of Gondor where using trebuchets which are for hurling small objects at high speeds. no way could a trebuchet hurl objects that large Agreed, those chunks were way to big for men to move. But they did have a wizard . . . maybe this is the "magic" that people were looking for Gandalf to use? ;)

As for the catapult vs. trebuchets . . . didn't they have both? I thought that the catapults were on towers and the trebuchets were on the walls.

[Daytrip]

not sure, i only remember the trebuchets but you may well be right

[QuiGonJosh]

I dont know...but it looked really sweet... :D

[WillySi7]

talemyn: "Agreed, those chunks were way to big for men to move. But they did have a wizard . . . maybe this is the "magic" that people were looking for Gandalf to use? "


hmmmm.. a logical peice of the EE? id love to see gandalf doing something like this. but it almost seems too much for him to do at once???

i tried to think of it as maybe since the trebuchets have those large parachute-like throwers, they somehow wrap or twist them around a rock.. i dont know..

[masetodd]

Maybe they had some kind of rail-system with blocks lined up, then slid into place for firing. Could have been as simple as a big stone block on logs or something.