Frodo didn't order Sam to go home in the book!!! :sheesh: He ran ahead of Sam, being abstracted for a moment by a clear path. If he'd bothered to think, he would have realized that Sam wasn't as close as he thought (remember that Sam was "the fat hobbit" and not as quick on his toes). Sam wasn't that far behind when Shelob pops out of a crack between them. Gollum's "slinker and stinker" characters in the movie was pretty accurate. Sam was very good. Eowyn was right. Boromir was an improvement. Almost everyone else suffered character assassination to various degrees. I still love the movies, but they will not replace the books in my heart. I see that Little Dragon also knows who got the last bottle of bleach in Middle Earth and what he had to do to get it! ;^) Carolly