They could have done something like this:
SOLDIER: “It’s like a sword … made of light!”
RAY: “If it were curved, it would be a light” – [looks knowingly at STEEL] – “saber!”
STEEL: “No. Just no.”
This is sounding like that bit from Skyrim: “They’ve got curved swords. Curved! Swords!”
THERE ARE FOUR LIGHTS! 
Nope. The joke doesn’t really work if you’re going to be pedantic about it. George Lucas didn’t call the damn thing a “lightsword.”
Yeah, more to the point with this episode, THERE WERE THREE ASTRONAUTS! How are Lovell and Haise going to explain that one?
Well, I guess what it’ll come down to, is, six foot, seven foot, eight foot, bunch.
Daylight come an’ me wanna go home.
I didn’t want this to pass without an acknowledgement that it literally made me spit out my coffee.
We’ll get to see more of Victor Garber singing on The Flash, as he’s set to appear in the musical episode along with Jessie L Martin and John Barrowman.
Both Snart and Rory will be in the new Prison Break (they were in the original), not sure how that effect their screen time on LoT
Brian
Is the the show new this week? My DVR guide literally has a gap from 9-10 after flash. Not even a “To Be Announced” place holder. It’s as if Flash is two hours but the running time of Flash says 60 minutes.
TV Guide’s website says it’s a new episode…
…set in WWI France, with young JRR Tolkien.
Yes, I believe it is. Google says Tuesday’s episode is episode 15: Fellowship of the Spear.
Thanks for the confirmation. Hopefully my DVR updates before tomorrow.
Deleted line from this episode:
Laurel: “Rip, why don’t we just take the Waverider directly to the place where we can destroy the item that is way too dangerous to fall into anyone’s hands? The whole arduous journey seems unnecessary and superfluous.”
Laurel is dead, unless they’re going to use the Spear of Destiny to bring her back. Although her Earth-2 doppelganger is still at large. Maybe the Legion of Doom can recruit her.
The show is already recycling its own plots. Just a few episodes ago, they went back in time to give George Lucas the idea for Star Wars. Now they give J.R.R. Tolkien the idea for The Lord of the Rings. But the show unapologetically recycles plots from everything. It’s frakken trope-tastic!
Or “Why don’t we just time travel to a point when the battle isn’t going on?”
All they had to do was start the episode with “We’ve been hit. The time drive is broken and it’s going to take some time to fix.”
I wish they hadn’t done the Star Wars episode, because I think they did a much better job with the same idea this episode.
I like how they recited part of Aragorn’s speech from ROTK “A day may come when the courage of men fails, when we forsake our friends and break all bonds of fellowship, but it is not this day.” (though that is the movie, not the books IIRC)
And hey JRRT did write about Sir Gawain and contracted trench fever so the writers did do some homework.
So the bad guys have the spear AND the vial of blood has been destroyed – doesn’t look good. But I’m not too worried as the bad guys won’t use it intelligently.
Brian
What I want to know is this: Ok, only the blood of Christ can destroy the Spear. This is the gimmick, so we can’t argue with that. We know that ~0 AD to 33 AD is just totally off limits because the butterfly effect is crazy-ass multiplied.
But you’ve got a ship that travels time and space. Throw the thing into a black hole. Will it be destroyed? No, per the rules above. Will anyone be able to get at it? No. So problem solved.
Or better: use the spear to wish that the spear never existed: remember, it’s paradox-proof, so this isn’t an issue.
Why are the people on this show so DUMB?
The Star Wars episode was a more comedic take. The LoTR episode was set against the backdrop of WWI, so not much opportunity for comedy there. I like them both more or less equally.
Remember, this is pretty much the same group that repeatedly managed to NOT finish off Vandal Savage last season.
Or why put the spear back together in the first place?
Totally. Just go back to 1912, before WW1 started. The Somme was just some pastoral area in France back then. And it’s not like they’ve visited 1912 before so they can’t go there again. They could hop out, retrieve the macguffin, AND as a bonus befuddle the Legion of Doom (who “figured out” that they were gonna go after it in the same time period they learned of its location).
So far we have bad guys chewing on lots of scenery and making me laugh. I’ll take this sort of episode.