I know! I felt so sad for him.

Well, I'm back.

The matinee crowd was curiously quiet. I think they were actually standees. Or sittees, in this case, although suttee would have been more exciting. The only time anyone reacted at all was at Gimli's "That still counts as one!" line.

Billy Boyd? Still with the face, and the voice, and the eyes. Auugghh. Astin? More auuuggghhh. Wood? Yup.

Oh--someone asked what the round scar was on Frodo's torso. The gash was from Weathertop, I think the round wound was from Shelob's stinger. Which, actually, wrong. Spiders don't have stingers, they (the females, at least) have ovipositors. They bite to paralyse and liquefy their prey. No I have not suddenly turned into billytea.

I want this on dvd now. Right now, in my own little living room so I can replay and slo mo and otherwise obsessively watch it. Now.

I thought it was from the troll - - you know from Moria.

That didn't wound him, did it? Wasn't it stopped by the mithril?

That spear never penetrated the mithril shirt, nor skin. Wouldn't have left a scar.

Headbutts are cool.

White light! White light!

Is that the inscription from the One Ring on the collar of Richard Taylor's coat?

I can think of a negative way to do it on velvet -- create a metal template with the letters cut/acided out, press the velvet with the template, and voila, stand-up velvet letters on a crushed velvet garment -- but I don't know enough about velvet for doing it a positive way.

Although, I imagine you can program a baseball-cap-embroidery machine like you see in malls to embroider the pattern easily enough. Heck, I can write it freehand relatively well, and I'm no artist.

IIRC, you can use an iron and a stamp-type thingy to emboss velvet. Just have to find/make a stamp of the inscription. (no I've never done it, just saw it on a website somewhere)

Well, Beverly beat me to the explaination of Frodo's round scar. I agree that it was Shelob's stinger.

Was I the only one that suffered massive chills when the Rohirrim galloped into battle screaming 'DEATH DEATH DEATH'?

Because I'd find that very hard to believe.

Also, the movie very desperately needs to have The Houses of Healing in it.

How could the stinger leave a scar? Isn't it supposed to be a suppurating wound at that time? Also, wouldn't it be where we can't see it, since where we could see would have been mithril covered?

Hmm.. Interesting points, ita.

But... I recall that it was an open wound in the orc tower, and a healed one in Minas Tirith.

I could be wrong.

Your point about the mithril protecting him is valid.