“…actually, you’re pretty much standing on a fair-ish sized chunk of him right now. Waffle pattern on your boot’s soles? Good luck scraping him out of that.”
I know you meant well, but I would prefer you not call me by the name of he who might easily have destroyed the One Ring when he had the chance and, in failing to do so, brought much woe to his people. Despite his other accomplishments, he is, on balance, no kin I would care to claim.
Isildur was the greatest hero of the first century of the Third Age, damn it! It’s not his fault he was seduced by the One Ring. He had no way of knowing that it would worm itself into his mind before he picked it up. I don’t think even Hurin or Beren could have willed themselves to destroy the ring.
But, okay, I won’t call you Isildur anymore. Though I don’t know who else Elendil’s heir could be, except perhaps Meneldil.
Also, Isildur could have taken Aragorn 99 falls out of 101, even if Aragorn had Anduril and Isildur were armed only with a toothpick. 
Beren, whose hand holds a Silmaril? You don’t give him enough credit, I think. Besides, what more could he possibly want?
You’re right about Beren. I’ll change that to “not even Hurin or Aragorn.”
ExTank kind of beat me to the punch. There’s a major difference between the ‘he said/he said’ situation you propose: there’s witnesses who can corroborate testimony–'specially that civilian the Lieutenant took cover behind (assuming that civilian survived).
And I’ll put dollars to donuts the actions of the Lieutenant immediately on returning to base would speak volumes to his credibility, to wit, the kid would act strangely and that would probably be used against him in a court martial.
Tripler
Mmmm. Donuts.
but who wouldn’t act strangely after just having his wings torn off by a mama were-tiger??
That was a long time ago. My friends call me William, and you can too. 
To get back to the equine question, a horse’s neck is easily flexible enough that they can turn their head and look you in the eye any time they want to, usually with a look of disdain when you’ve done something stupid.
Riding ordinarily not so much; usually you’re using the ears as a mood barometer.
Oh, so you’re troll?
Wow Skald - is this the same story where the mother and daughter lose like the entire family, and then go catatonic and batshit insane?
You are one damnably bloodthirsty Rhymer man.
As to the military question - this is purely from my reading of (what I think) is a true story called The Caine Mutiny, set on a US Minesweeper in WWII
From what I recall the (Navy) Captain there was relieved by his subordinates on the basis of insanity - i would imagine “hiding behind a civilian” is enough evidence of insanity (or should that be sanity?) to make this defence stick.
Not THAT William! :eek:
No. The Caine Mutiny is fiction. The one germ of truth in it was the typhoon the Caine (along with the rest of the task force) was caught in was based rather loosely on Halsey’s typhoon where TF38 came out rather worse for the wear.
Ignorance Fought!
Thanks
Sort of. Different stories set in the same universe.