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.

I don't remember seeing anything open in the orc tower. And I just realised that mentally I had him waking up in Rivendell, which makes absolutely no sense. Back to Minas Tirith he goes.

"And now every time I see [Salo, I think was the stunt guy's name], I just see this white light ..."

And yes, it must be said. Elijah Wood should be nominated for Hero of the Board, since he takes the simple and time honored tradition of skulls colliding and all unintentional like makes it slash.

Oh, and my other favorite thing is that the Art Department made a door the Uruk-Hai couldn't knock down. They can build my castle any day.

And they had the same Swordmaster as The Princess Bride. Sweet.

The extras are things of massive beauty.

I love that Karl Urban and whoeveritisthatplaysHaldir are so utterly gorgeous as their real selves.

I think in the book Frodo has a bruise at least from where the orc spear hits him. But I don't have it here so I may be wrong. I thought Shelob got him in the back of the neck, though.