Thanks for your cheer of approval, <B>Helen</B>!Actually I prefer, like the evil universe Mr. Spock, to be second in command and thus a lesser target! As for nitpicky movie physics, <B>HC</B>, it's FUN! I'm having a lot of fun batting the Music of the Ainur back and forth on the "Physics of the Ainulindale" thread as well. Sometimes I destroy topics that way though, like a dog with a bedraggled slipper that used to be quite attractive! <P>Anyway, as for Gandalf and wind resistance, could heat-based updraft currents have an effect in this realm? Or coefficient of heat expansion in the metal, thus expanding the area Glamdring takes up...I know that's far fetched! Its only microscopic after all...but you never know. When in doubt, invoke, "Elvish art!" I'm still betting on summoning charms though! Seems the least error prone, even if I am mixing my references!<P>And <B>Mattius</B>, even if the backpack were underneath the cloak, the cloak could be turned back on itself inside out and drape over the pack as well as the hobbits. It would be a bit twisty and bunched against Frodo's back, but I don't see why it couldn't happen if my spatial sense isn't totally wrecked...its always possible such a thing would cause Frodo to be totally exposed...hmmm...have to watch it again or experiment with my own backpacks and cloak!<P>Cheers,<BR>Lyta
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“…she laid herself to rest upon Cerin Amroth; and there is her green grave, until the world is changed, and all the days of her life are utterly forgotten by men that come after, and elanor and niphredil bloom no more east of the Sea.”
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