Job for Mythbusters: can a Hobbit throw a rock and take out an armoured Orc?

Who's supplying the halfling pipe weed? 

More random questions:

5. How does Gollum get across the bridge of Khazad-Dum if he's trailing the fellowship and the bridge broke?
6. It's been noted for 50 years...why doesn't Gandalf just hitch a ride with an Eagle and drop the ring into the frigg'n volcano without anyone breaking sweat? Do you buy Tolkien's answer?
7. Why dismiss the Army of the Dead if the job's not done i.e. Black Gate confrontation still lay ahead. Too Deus Ex machina?
8. Frodo = Jesus. Discuss. Both have mortal wounds in their sides, both 'die' saving all inhabitants of the world, both descend into Mordor/Hell, and are resurrected by an Eagle/Angel, and then leave this realm.
9. Romney, Santorum or Aragorn?

And a shot every time Frodo strokes his ring

Don't forget to mention that (first choice for Gandalf) Sean Connery turned down 10% of gross for these movies because he didn't want to live in NZ for a year and wear the silly wizard's hat.

That's right, he gave up $300M(!!!) to NOT see a beautiful country that most people fall in love with when they visit.

Must be the biggest declined offer of all time. Can anyone think of a bigger one?

At the London Imax this month is a Lord of the Rings all-nighter (i.e. all three theatrical editions in one go) but it begins at midnight so you'd need intravenous Red Bull. In the past, you'd get someone like Ian McKellen turn up and make some introductory remarks.

I would normally go if it was on during the day, especially if they'd screen the extended editions, but as I far as I know there was never a print of the extended edition of Return of the King released for cinemas.

Wow - extra special high bit-rate of 192kbps for this one.    Thanks guys, and congrats on a marvellous line-up of the best fan commentaries on the 'net.

I've just thrown $50 your way via Paypal as pizza money for the upcoming Lord of the Rings marathons. That should cover the food for the prologue and the Hobbiton scenes. The pizza boxes will be empty by the time the Hobbits arrive at Rivendell and then it'll be time for second-breakfast. Hopefully other listeners will chip in with pizza & drink money as well.

No, no... preparation consists of watching all three extended editions 5 times (as there are four commentary tracks). That's 60 hours. Then all the box-set making-of extras. Another 25+ hours. Then reading the Tolkien books, Jackson biography, Serkis' book on creating Gollum, and Sean Astin's book, relevant fan blogs, wiki pages, imdb pages, Hobbit production diaries, easter eggs, MTV parodies, Costa Botes behind-the-scenes films, promotional interviews, etc... 

All good points. I'm sure apologists can mangle some convoluted answer that the Joker was some sort of cult leader and had inside men everywhere (like Tyler Durden in Fight Club).

These days, with Twitter, someone charismatic with heaps of followers could instantly execute 'Order 66' or whatever.

Nolan's fast-paced plot (no repetitions of important plot points, no comic relief interludes), keeps you always struggling to keep up rather than mediate on why x or y doesn't make sense.