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So, against Team B trolls are coming from opposite directions.
Here comes a Last Battle. Remember this is a LotR fanfic, or started to be, so what is this? The battle in Helm's Deep!
The plan is, if the trolls break in, the kids run to the forest. The bigger ones, 13-14, will carry the real small ones. The gypsies join them.
the Children are at place. They are remembered of their duty and honor. They even come up with an ad-hoc battle plan, to move around half of their troops.
This is really set up as a mini last battle of humanity, just like Helm's Deep.

Oh, I was worrying we don't have a Forsaken now. Here is Isam!
The stakes are made, the bets are layed - let's beginn!
But remember: 500 troll is nothin. 1,000 troll would reach the fences. 1,500 troll would have a chance in the village. 5-10K would wash away the locals.
Of course not counting the Children.
Let's see how it goes.

Yep, they already reached the defenses. The melee begins.

Thing is a mess. Weren't we promised a two-way siege? Fail to see that. Also promised battle tactics. Where are the Children?
There is an aes sedai throwing fireballs...
Things get desperate, the women fill up the ranks.

What is this bullshit that "if the wamen are here, where are the children"? Your fucking plan was the women to fight, and the children to run away on their own, with the gypsies!
This is not Helm's Deep, this is a fraud. The scene collapses under the lack of pre-planninng, and failing to deliver what was set up. What was promised.

Then someone is attacking the trolls. Ye, reinforcment! Ok, so not the ogre, but this was mentioned by the dying messanger. Waaay too Helm's Deep. It's a ripoff now. A BAD ripoff!!
AAAND we get ANOTHER reinforcement? One was not enough? This is crap. Utter garbage. Not even the most basic editing work was done here. The volume started promising, it accumlated mistakes, and here the whole thing just collapsed.
AND to add insult to injury, no Forsaken got defeated either, so it was not just bad on every level, but also mostly pointless. The mostly goes for ye, this is Rand's town of origin - WHICH HE NO LONGER CARES. No plan to return, really like 0.1% interrest rate in general, a heavy shrug if it gets lost at best.

The Children show up, of course they did not participate in the battle - yet another deadly mistake from the writer's part.
People tell them to piss off.

Oh, ye, Ordeith still exists. His ragtag gorde aim first Caemlyn then Tar Valon. No idea why, don't even care, this is trash.


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