I think it was necessary for the reason's Saucepan gives. Imagine if Elves never did show up and then Elrond and Galadriel breeze in after all the fighting's done. The average film viewer would roll their eyes and think, "what the hell did you do in all this?" PJ had to prevent that reaction from the audience.<P>H.C.
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"Stir not the bitterness in the cup that I mixed myself. Have I not tasted it now many nights upon my tongue, foreboding that worse yet lay in the dregs."
-Denethor
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