Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26210095-20160404001701/@comment-26347028-20160404194357

TheShade6 wrote: I'm quite sure it was Sarumans voice alone, and I think the gate of Gondor was crafted by normal peasant laborers, now while I admit the grond (bartering ram) was used it had nearly no effect until the witch king casted his spell which caused the grind to one shot the gate The first, being his voice, is presumably not "just" his voice. As I said, a myriad of machinations are in order - as the bombs show a certainly higher level of war machines than precedented. And grond presumably did have quite a large effect and it was just stated that way to have less of an effect on those who built it and not dishearten the locals. Everything is embellished in time, and I believe that both of those were.