New here ... been dying to say ...

[Lush]

Per Ceryx Moon's (welcome, btw) question regarding the lack of headaches and backaches, well, I don't think that the movies are particularly unrealistic about it.<P>I mean, check out Frodo's face in half the scenes. Does he look particularly <I>happy</I> or <I>healthy</I> to you? Also, remember Frodo's wound: that one isn't going <I>anywhere</I> for the rest of his life.<P>Per Aragorn in regards to backaches and whatnot: he's a trained warrior. I think that assuming that he knows how to fall with minimal injury to himself is not stretching our logic too far. He's got <I>special</I> blood running in his veins; he can manage. Same goes for Gimli. And Legolas is an <I>Elf</I>, and if you know anything about Elves, you should probably have a good idea of how hard it is to seriously damage an Elf. <P>Besides all that, having the characters continuously walking around and whining "me back hurrrts" would turn an epic into something resembling a documentary on retirement homes.