Hm. Well, I hope you're right and that the EE clears it up. I don't want to hate any part of it, and that part still makes no sense. Even the love and wonder... what, he didn't know she was coming (hel-lo?) TO HIS CORONATION?!
I am wondering a few things... minor things.... like, when Frodo's shirtless in the tower, he's got two wounds. One is the Morgul-blade wound, the other looked to me like Shelob's sting at first - but it's too high up, the mithril shirt should have stopped it.
I thought the same, except not as smart as you about the mithril shirt. But beyond that, they're both healed scars, and Shelob's couldn't have healed. There's a little niggle, BTW, that I don't want to labor... but her sting, as they show it, is more of a rhinoceros horn. It'd have gutted him. It needed to be slimmer and sharper. So anyway, my only other thought about that wound is that it was a mark left by the cave troll in the mines of Moria.
...oh, darn, I have more to say but I have to go do family stuff
Me too. It's Burger Night, and Dad cooks. Write more when you can, young lady.
Dan
You are right. The spider stung hi in the back of the neck, and the second wound is a round scar
that's where the troll "skewered" him in FOTR
The Mitril shirt protected him, but if you read the book, he has a shirt under the mithril, and the troll's hitting him caused the skin to break from links hitting his skin. In the book, Aragorn washes the wound so it won't get infected. The wound would be more like an "abraision" superficial but would scar, but the mitril stopped it from penetrating deeper.