Weapons Of The Dark Tower!!
MY FIRST POST!!
What are your favorite weapons of the books, and why?
Ill start off with the HORN OF ELD, not a weapon in the traditional sense, but shows the variety of "Weapons" we can use here..
It was a rallying horn, it was a calling of the soul to the gunslingers of Gilead, Striking fear into they're enemies.. Keeping the peace
I liked the Orizza plates myself.
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The Guns of course!!!!!!!
28 in 23 (?)!!!!
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I'm torn. Roland's guns are up there obviously, but I'm going to have to say 'Rizas are my favorite. It's a very original weapon and would scare the heck out of me if someone were attacking me with them, I wouldn't know where they were coming from at all.
Is there an historical inspiration for Orizas?
GREAT QUESTION!
Im not sure... they were described almost as plates rather than rings, but i know many cultures used throwing rings, here is one
http://www.flight-toys.com/rings/chackrum.html
ill check for plates
some one should put up the rizas in the towerpedia, who does that?
Oriza plates always remind me of shuriken
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Of course! Or just some crazy throwing a tantrum in the kitchen.
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The orizza plates are my favorite weapon.
Shiruken were also the first thing that came up in searches for similar throwing weapons.
BUT I also just found out about a Sikh weapon called the Chakram. While I'm not sure if it had any influence on the origin of 'Rizas, they are the most similar pre-exsisting weapon imo:
"The chakram, sometimes called a war quoit, is a flat metal disc with a sharp outer edge from 5–12 inches (130–300 mm) in diameter used as a weapon by the Sikh people. Unlike wind and fire wheels, which are larger and used as melee weapons only, the chakram was designed to be thrown."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chakram
It's more like a ring than a plate, but they don't have spikes and they're about plate-size vs. the shiruken which I think are smaller.
Plus...Xena had em!
The one thing that bothers me about circular sharp edged weapons
is this...one would need to be awefully carefull it seems to me that they did'nt cut their hands holding /throwing them.
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the Chakram
Last edited by RolandOfEld; 08-23-2009 at 04:03 PM. Reason: add text
So many guns, so little time....
Than there are the homicidal robots....
I liked that King brought the sneeches from Harry Potter into the story. Using them as weapons is a good idea, imo.
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The sneetches never seemed to fit for me in the series like the Orizas, bahs, etc. did. I guess the fact that they were from Harry Potter was almost too distracting.Originally Posted by batsker
They made very effective, terrifying weapons however...can't argue with that!
not a typical weapon.. but the skölpadda
so tiny and innocent still so powerful
Roland would have understood.
that's very true Letti ...so smart!
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Think of the sneeches as more of a guided missile, rather than a crossover from another series. Makes more scence that way... Not a far leap from the weaponry we have currently...
Yeah I guess the Golden Snitch didn't explode Quidditch players.
The big ones with the sandalwood grips
Yep. Sadly.Yeah I guess the Golden Snitch didn't explode Quidditch players.
Spoiler:
Roland would have understood.
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