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<blockquote data-quote="Pielorinho" data-source="post: 1278888" data-attributes="member: 259">True about giant spiders.&nbsp; I think part of what made it so scary was that WETA had obviously thought a lot about how a giant spider would fight, and made her seem massive and clever.&nbsp; She was constantly throwing her weight around, knocking him to the side with her forelegs, pinning him, and so forth; her fighting style was like a special form of kung fu you can only do if you have eight legs, fangs, and an abdominal stinger <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />.&nbsp; Most giant spiders just attack by running up and biting at you -- borrrrring!&nbsp;Shelob, without having a single line, came across as wickedly intelligent, as having a personality.&nbsp; Quite a difficult feat.&nbsp;As for Faramir's suicidal charge, I gotta say that hit me hard.&nbsp; I'm nowhere near an expert on the books, having read them three times in twenty years, and I have no head at all for battle scenes.&nbsp; When Faramir and his troops started to ride out, I was thinking, &quot;Surely they're not really going back to Osgyliath?&nbsp; Surely someone's going to stop them just in time?&quot;&nbsp; And then the expressions on the faces of the orcs as they see the line of cavalry coming across the field -- the orcs thinking, incredulously, &quot;Are you fools serious?&quot;&nbsp; And then everyone charging forward to their deaths as the orcs shrug and accommodate them -- it took me until the end of Pippin's song to believe it was really* happening.&nbsp; Superb!&nbsp;Daniel&nbsp;* you know what I mean</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Pielorinho, post: 1278888, member: 259"] True about giant spiders. I think part of what made it so scary was that WETA had obviously thought a lot about how a giant spider would fight, and made her seem massive and clever. She was constantly throwing her weight around, knocking him to the side with her forelegs, pinning him, and so forth; her fighting style was like a special form of kung fu you can only do if you have eight legs, fangs, and an abdominal stinger :). Most giant spiders just attack by running up and biting at you -- borrrrring! Shelob, without having a single line, came across as wickedly intelligent, as having a personality. Quite a difficult feat. As for Faramir's suicidal charge, I gotta say that hit me hard. I'm nowhere near an expert on the books, having read them three times in twenty years, and I have no head at all for battle scenes. When Faramir and his troops started to ride out, I was thinking, "Surely they're not really going back to Osgyliath? Surely someone's going to stop them just in time?" And then the expressions on the faces of the orcs as they see the line of cavalry coming across the field -- the orcs thinking, incredulously, "Are you fools [b]serious[/b]?" And then everyone charging forward to their deaths as the orcs shrug and accommodate them -- it took me until the end of Pippin's song to believe it was really* happening. Superb! Daniel * you know what I mean [/QUOTE]

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