I have no problem with her ducking the mace, that was fine. It was her general lack of steeliness and skill with arms that I didn't like. <BR>Read the passage in the book again - it could have been a great cinematic moment, there's an incredible stillness and tension in the prose which just wasn't there on the screen. Given the amount of time given to Shelob in this film, and things like the cave-troll fight in FotR, I don't see why this, one of the highpoints in the whole book, had to be rushed.
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