A Quick Game of "Catch the Ring-Bearer"

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Pippin are already across, carried by Boromir).  That's the moment Gimli decides to hold out his hand and say, "Nobody tosses a Dwarf."  If not for that, Frodo would have been tossed across by Aragorn, Gimli would have... done whatever Gimli was going to do, and Aragorn would have been left to jump across himself, which he could have done quite capably--second only to Legolas--if not burdened with a hobbit to take care of.   </div> <bR> <div> Of course, that doesn't change the <I>real </I>reason Aragorn and Frodo were left on the other side of the fissure--to make the scene more tense.  But at least there's some kind of rationale. </div> <bR> <div> We made it up to the actual trip across the gap here, so we'll pick it up at that point.  All I've done to these pics is given each one exactly the same amount of "underexposure" treatment to lighten them up just a bit.  However they shot this one, the blurred frames seem to show there actually were bodies moving very quickly through space.  In fact, <I>because </I>things were moving so fast, this is frame-by-frame from #2 on.</div> <bR> <div> Here, as in the scene where Boromir holds Frodo back from running to Gandalf at the Bridge, I initially thought it was too bad we didn't see more of Boromir's face, until my "non-suspension-of-disbelief" side kicked in and reminded me, "It's not Sean Bean, silly--It's his scale double."  Duh. </div> <div>  <A NAME="catch_the_ring_bearer_top"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <B>1</B></div> <div> <IMG SRC="12df4d30.jpg" border=0 width="500" height="211" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <B>2</B></div> <div> <IMG SRC="12ef3d60.jpg" border=0 width="499" height="214" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <B>3</B></div> <div> <IMG SRC="12ff5d00.jpg" border=0 width="501" height="208" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <B>4</B></div> <div> <IMG SRC="130f3d00.jpg" border=0 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