[HCIsland]

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR> I thought they should've just left him in at Helm's Deep, <HR></BLOCKQUOTE><BR>But then who would Gandalf have gone out to find? Erkenbrand? Then they would have had to take the time to set up this character, the scattering of the forces of Rohan after the lose at the Battle of Fords of Isen. They couldn't have gone straight from Edoras to Helm's Deep but instead would have had to ride to war at the fords or else how would the characters learn what happened to Erkenbrand and his forces? This would have taken a lot of screen time for no reason.<P>Even the Baski film, which tended to stay very true to the book for the scenes that they showed, recognized how messy this would be and replaced Erkenbrand with Eomer.<P>H.C.