"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.

Hmm.. Looks like I'll have to see the movie again.

The only place I cried was Theoden's death.

Oh, and I thought that Denethor's death was handled much better in the book. It's one change that I'm seriously unhappy about.

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

I think he is actually the only swordmaster in the entire world. Or whenever he dies they replace him immediately with a new model. He also did the rapier fights in The Count of Monte Cristo (the recent one), and in that case, one of the fighters really was left-handed. (Jim Caviezel.) I think they made him fight right-handed anyway; I can't remember.

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)

I do it all the time (embossing velvet). The problem is that fine details don't always turn out well. I still want to try it.

Yes, in the book Frodo did have a massive bruise from the spear in Moria. It makes sense that what we're seeing as a scar is actually the discoloring bruise from the spear, since instead of having the full month in Lothlorien to heal, they only had a couple of days. If you think about it, there's less than three weeks between Gandalf's fall and Shelob's Lair (I'm guesstimating three days between the fall and leaving Lothlorien, another three on the river, three days between Amon Hen and meeting Gollum, about a week before Osgiliath, two days between Osgiliath and Minas Morgul, and another day climbing the stairs and entering the Lair).

It makes sense that what we're seeing as a scar is actually the discoloring bruise from the spear

As a self-declared bruise expert, that still doesn't make sense to me. Bruises don't make scar tissue. And I swear that was 3D. Or at least in as many Ds as the Weathertop scar.

Maybe the mithril vest had been ground into his skin by the spear?

I'm frantically fanwanking scar tissue now, aren't I?

It looked 3-D (raised, uneven) to me, too. And was really far too big to be Shelob's "stinger", unless she stung him 6 inches deep, right into his heart! I can't think of what else it would be, though. I think it was set just high enough to miss the mithril armor, although, hello, they could have just had him get stabbed in the (front of?) the neck and avoided that issue entirely.

Textually, the only scars Frodo carries are Shelob's sting and the Morgul-blade. And he celebrates each anniversary with a day in bed, moaning.