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Originally Posted by Regulator75
There was something I noticed tonight in ROTK. When Frodo gets punctured by Shelob, it seems to go through his Mithril shirt. Shouldn't it have that protected him?
(did they explain this in the book? / I haven't read them in 20 years).
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The mithril shirt was amazingly strong but not impenetrable. In the first book/movie he was stabbed by the Nazgul on Weathertop and the blade went through. I haven't read the books in a few years, I think in the book Shelob stung him in the back of the neck but I could be remembering wrong.