To: carton253
The first arrow gets him in the upper left chest, just below the clavicle, lacerating the top of the lung...
The second arrow went low, creasing the pancrease, the traversing segmet of the lower intestine, and probably nicked the kidney...
the third arrow hit between the two, taking the lower lung and possibly the renal artery... and didn't strike anywhere near the horn...
he would have bled out more quickly (30 seconds, max), if he'd been hit with broadheads... everyone, including Legolas, is using bodkin tipped arrows, for punching through heavy armor...
To: g'nad
I think the horn got broken "off-camera" while we were lookin' at Lurtz....
To: g'nad
he would have bled out more quickly (30 seconds, max), if he'd been hit with broadheads... Only if PJ told him to...
To: g'nad; RosieCotton; carton253
I bet Merry & Pippin got it with one of those rocks...
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11/20/2002 12:00:31 PM PST by
ksen
To: g'nad
The fact that you know all that, I find very impressive. I agree that none of the arrows touched the horn. I think that is the illusion that PJ wanted you to have. Because there is a shot of Boromir fighting... horn intact... then the shot of the third arrow between the two (you were paying better attention than me) and the horn then was split.
I agree... the arrow didn't do it. But, I think the film editors wants us to believe that.
To: g'nad
the third arrow hit between the two, taking the lower lung and possibly the renal artery... and didn't strike anywhere near the horn...I don't know g'nad, the way he was thrashing about with his sword, that horn was bouncing all over the place!! It could have gotten in the way of that last arrow, then the arrow went right through it! If it slowed the velocity of the arrow, maybe that's why Boromir took so long dying, other than the fact that Tolkien wanted to drag that part out for his own literary purposes! LOL!
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