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> there will be an explanation of why the hobbit can beat the giant spider Please give me a timestamp in this scene when that happens: https://www.youtube.com

• thaumasiotes 4y ago
  Sam is using a magic item. Compare the summary from the LOTR wiki: > Using the Phial of Galadriel, they managed to at first fend her off. The light of Eärendil's Star shone from the Phial, causing unbearable stabbing pain to Shelob's darkened senses, but she returned to attack Frodo, poisoning him with her stinger in a surprise attack just as they reached the exit of the cave on the Mordor side. Her venom paralyzed Frodo, and she then wrapped him in her web. > Sam then assaulted the creature using Sting and the Phial of Galadriel in order to rescue his master. In a pitched battle, Sam managed to stab one of her eyes and injure her leg, but she held the upper hand. However, when she tried to use her stinger to inject Sam with venom, he dodged at the last moment and was able to stab her in the abdomen with Sting. This wounded her enough that Sam forced her to retreat using the Phial of Galadriel.
• notahacker 4y ago
  tbf Tolkien himself tries to explain it as a mixture of desperation and loyalty to Frodo, a super elven sword and the spider impaling herself in an ill-fated attacking move. Doesn't really come across in the film. :) I'm not sure where good storytelling comes into men in films dodging bullets and beating up dozens of assailants or why the stylised violence suddenly becomes less believable because the person winning against improbable odds is female though. Or where the Tolkein original plotline involving a woman with a broken arm defeating a Nazgûl lord so strong it's prophecied no man can kill him in a swordfight fits into woke propaganda trends :D