Some possible (if I can't handwave them away, that is) problems with RotK have recently been pointed out to me. If you don't want your brain eaten, look away... now.

1) When Frodo, Sam and Gollum reach the Black Gate, Frodo and Sam fall down a mountain and almost get caught. In RotK, Aragorn and his army ride up on a plain. Where did the mountain go?

2) How did Shelob sting Frodo if he was wearing his mithril vest?

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3) How come Frodo has a full set of fingers as he's writing his book in the Shire?

Oops.

Also, once Aragorn, Gimli and Legolas get to Pellenor, did you notice the shot of Legolas shooting arrows -- but where they forgot to cgi the arrows in ?

I do love how Aragorn and Gimli come by and kill Gothmog, incidentally saving Eowyn.

I always figured that b) Shelob stung lower than the vest and I know that c) he doesn't have all his fingers -- look again -- only three reach the top of the book. The index finger falls short.

Nutty, why is Aragorn lying in that speech? I'd thought it apparent that Sauron didn't have the ring, because then his army wouldn't actually be massing to fight. It wouldn't have to. So things weren't over.

Jars, I'm pretty sure 2) has an explanation, but 3) is a continuity error.

eta: apparently not a continuity error.

Finger missing. Haven't found one of the shot over his shoulder.

How come Frodo has a full set of fingers as he's writing his book in the Shire?

He doesn't, actually. I noticed particularly that his index finger was shorter than the rest.

Jars, for 2) How did Shelob sting Frodo if he was wearing his mithril vest? I believe the vest was v-shaped and Shelob stung him where the metal did not cover his chest.

Also, once Aragorn, Gimli and Legolas get to Pellenor, did you notice the shot of Legolas shooting arrows -- but where they forgot to cgi the arrows in ?

I actually looked frame-by-frame at this, and I thought that they did CGI the arrows in, but since Legolas was shooting them so fast it's hard to tell that they're actually there.

Shelob stung him where the metal did not cover his chest.

No, otherwise we'd see them when Frodo's shirtless in the orc's tower. But we see no fresh wounds then, so it must have been below the belt, where the vest wasn't covering.

Okay, beathen -- I shall try that.

I think that we had a discussion about the Black Gates and the plain in front of them and the mountains to the side of them.

Frodo and Sam came through the Dead Marshes -- but if you look at the map you can see that there is a plain directly in front of the gates -- and that there are in fact, mountains if you cut straight from Emyn Muil to the Gates.

(BTW, in TTT, if Legolas had said that the orcs were turning Northeasterly insted of saying Northeast -- would he have been less wrong?)

BTW, in TTT, if Legolas had said that the orcs were turning Northeasterly insted of saying Northeast -- would he have been less wrong?

No, because they still would've been heading the wrong way.