I can tell you without question that all the Merry/Pippin/Treebeard parts were aimed at growing the hobbits' characters. In that I felt PJ did a fantastic job. While in the FotR Merry and Pip were just comic relief they now had become rich dramatic characters. But when roles are expanded other roles are hurt. In this case the Ents recieved less character. Being more of a hobbit fan then an ent fan myself I didn't mind the change at all.<P>As for why so many elves died and Aragorn lived? Because it's written in black in white in Tolkiens books that Aragorn lives through the books. Pit him against a thousand orcs, throw him off a cliff, give him a bath, or whatever you do to him he has to be there at the end because that's what the books say. <BR>As for the elves, since they aren't even supposed to be there PJ can do whatever he wants with them. <BR>Ah, the "magic" of Hollywood.
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"There's nothing you can do, Harry... nothing... he's gone."-Remus Lupin
"The closer we are to danger, the further we are from harm."-Pippin (now how can you argue with that logic?)
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