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Ereinion · 12-20-2001, 03:11 PM

Loved the movie. I wish they hadnt left out Glorfindel. Sure, I knew before hand, but I was always hoping they would slip him in there. I also thought they messed up the Last Alliance a little. The armies were spectacular (how cool was that long line of Elven longswords?), but they pretty much ignored Gil-galad and Elendil. We never see Gil-galad at all, unfortunately, and all we see of Elendil is him getting tossed like a pebble against a wall. And then Isildur hacks off the fingers of a still very powerful Sauron. In the books, Elendil and Gil-galad were supposed to defeat Sauron and die in the process. And then Isildur cut off the ring after Sauron was "unconscious" or what not. At least that's how I intepreted it. I sorely missed Gil-galad and also all the songs. I wanted to hear some Elvish singing! All well, on the whole a great movie and I'll probably see it four more times lol.

12-20-2001, 03:11 PM	#11
Ereinion Animated Skeleton Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Coventry, RI Posts: 26	Loved the movie. I wish they hadnt left out Glorfindel. Sure, I knew before hand, but I was always hoping they would slip him in there. I also thought they messed up the Last Alliance a little. The armies were spectacular (how cool was that long line of Elven longswords?), but they pretty much ignored Gil-galad and Elendil. We never see Gil-galad at all, unfortunately, and all we see of Elendil is him getting tossed like a pebble against a wall. And then Isildur hacks off the fingers of a still very powerful Sauron. In the books, Elendil and Gil-galad were supposed to defeat Sauron and die in the process. And then Isildur cut off the ring after Sauron was "unconscious" or what not. At least that's how I intepreted it. I sorely missed Gil-galad and also all the songs. I wanted to hear some Elvish singing! All well, on the whole a great movie and I'll probably see it four more times lol.