Shelob's sting & Frodo's mithril coat - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

Lyta_Underhill · 01-27-2004, 12:14 AM

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>yeah but still its MITHRIL!!!! You cant pentrate that stuff....<HR></BLOCKQUOTE> As I postulate on the thread that <B>Finwe</B> has so kindly linked above, it doesn't have to penetrate it. If Shelob attacks from above and front, then she can get around the vest from the top. I don't think she could penetrate it straight through, but she could probably divert it by a proper angle of attack. In the book, the wound is at the back of the neck, which also is unprotected by mithril. It just goes to prove Murphy's Law in Middle Earth (at least with regards to Frodo and injuries)! <P>Cheers!<BR>Lyta

01-27-2004, 12:14 AM	#4
Lyta_Underhill Haunted Halfling Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: an uncounted length of steps--floating between air molecules Posts: 841	<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>yeah but still its MITHRIL!!!! You cant pentrate that stuff....<HR></BLOCKQUOTE> As I postulate on the thread that <B>Finwe</B> has so kindly linked above, it doesn't have to penetrate it. If Shelob attacks from above and front, then she can get around the vest from the top. I don't think she could penetrate it straight through, but she could probably divert it by a proper angle of attack. In the book, the wound is at the back of the neck, which also is unprotected by mithril. It just goes to prove Murphy's Law in Middle Earth (at least with regards to Frodo and injuries)! <P>Cheers!<BR>Lyta __________________ “…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.”