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Saucepan Man:<BR> <BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR> On other threads, the point has been made that it would have been clumsy and time-consuming to show these other battles, so the Elves were at Helms Deep to make up for this - to show that they too were involved in the War of the Ring. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE><P>More clumsy than the Aragron-falling-over-a-cliff-with-a-fat-hyena scene? I hardly think so. They could have easily left that dreadful scene out. And, instead of the Elrond/Galadriel Psychic Friends Network scene, they could have used the conversation between Gilmli and Legolas that H.C. Island posted. (I know it is taken from RotK, but Peter Jackson and friends haven't let things like proper placement stop them before.)<P>They could have had Gimli and Legolas atop the walls of Helm's Deep, waiting for the approaching battle:<P> <BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR> "The Lady of the Wood!" [said Gimli]. She read many hearts and desires. Now why did not we wish for some of our own kinsfolk Legolas?"<BR>Legolas stood before the gate and turned his bright eyes away north and east, and his fair face was troubled. "I do not think that any would come," he answered. "They have no need to ride to war; war already marches on their own lands."<P> <HR></BLOCKQUOTE> (thamks H.C. !)<BR>Then, cut to brief scenes showing the Elves and Dwarves fighting their own battles.<P> Very subtle, but showing that everyone is invloved in the War. Then, Helm's Deep could have been properly filmed with Eomer and the Riders instead of Elves. And ended properly with Gandalf and the Huorns (oh to have seen the Huorns!)instead of the Charge of the White Brigade.