It's my holiday break, and I'm really glad since for a period of three weeks I can stop thinking about school. What's more, I have more time for the Downs! Now I log on and what I see is a discussion of my favorite subject: Physics.
Okay, I'll stop the ranting.
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Originally Posted by Nimrodel_9
How about when Legolas throws Aragorn and Gimli a rope? Aragorn wraps an arm around the dwarf, grasps the rope with one hand, and is hauled up. How is that possible? I guess Arry is very VERY strong.
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Isn't a Dwarf and an Elf too heavy for a rope as thin as the one we saw in the movie? Shouldn't their mass, and the fact that they were hanging on in midair, have been enough for the rope to snap, putting an end to their Orc-killing game?
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Originally Posted by Lalwendė
I was just thinking about Shelob and Ungoliant. I heard once that spiders can only get to a certain size (about as big as a small plate), biologically speaking, and then the genetic composition of their bodies would make them unable to get any bigger, or their skeletons would simply collapse under the weight.
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Ah, but Ungoliant and her descendants are mutants, their genetic composition altered in such a way that they can grow to such extreme sizes. They were probably given a few hundred additional nitrogen-base pairs for their DNA.
Another thing, remember the scene in TTT where Saruman and Gandalf were on top of Orthanc, and Saruman had Gandalf standing diagonally at the very edge of the floor (or ceiling, actually)? I think Gandalf should have fallen already due to the pull of gravity, unless there is a stronger horizontal force that keeps his feet firmly planted on the floor. Maybe his shoes are made of metal and Orthanc is a gigantic electromagnet...
I'll stop now, before I go crazy.