Wide-Screen Sword Fall

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this has to be the most beautiful, elegant (in both the aesthetic and scientific senses of the word) dropping of something I've ever seen. </B></div> <div> <B>The main point is, of course, to show how totally spent Frodo is after he battles the Ring over Sam's life.   </B></div> <div> <B> <A NAME="sword_fall_top"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <B>The expression on his face doesn't leave much doubt. </B></div> <bR> <div> <B>1</B></div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="0f758fb0.jpg" border=0 width="600" height="251" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>2</B></div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="0f959fb0.jpg" border=0 width="601" height="251" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>3</B></div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="0fb59fc0.jpg" border=0 width="601" height="252" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <bR> <div> <B>But the way he drops Sting says it all.  He doesn't actually </B><I><B>do </B></I><B>anything--doesn't throw the sword or actively drop it--so it's not that he's in any way "rejecting" the sword.  His grip simply loosens and it falls.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>4</B></div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="0fd59fc0.jpg" border=0 width="601" height="252" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>5</B></div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="0ff59fc0.jpg" border=0 width="601" height="252" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>6</B></div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="10159fc0.jpg" border=0 width="601" height="252" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>7</B></div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="10359fc0.jpg" border=0 width="601" height="252" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>8</B></div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="10559fc0.jpg" border=0 width="601" height="252" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>9</B></div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="10759fc0.jpg" border=0 width="601" height="252" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>10</B></div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="10959fc0.jpg" border=0 width="601" height="252" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>11</B></div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="10b58fb0.jpg" border=0 width="600" height="251" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>12</B></div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="10d59fc0.jpg" border=0 width="601" height="252" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>13</B></div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="10f58fb0.jpg" border=0 width="600" height="251" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <bR> <div> <B>And then, in what seems like a delayed reaction, his fingers close back up again as if the sword's still there (a </B><I><B>great </B></I><B>detail).</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>14</B></div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="11159fc0.jpg" border=0 width="601" height="252" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>15</B></div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="11359fc0.jpg" border=0 width="601" height="252" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> 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