Short-changing Gondor

[Neurion]

Originally Posted by Lhunardawen

For cinematic effect. Besides, he has artistic freedom. Didn't use it accordingly, let me tell you.

Didn't do justice to the books either, it seems.

Rather than have the Gondorian soldiers simply standing around and waiting for the orcs to lightly tap them before collapsing to the ground like their legs have suddenly evaporated, it would have had much more "Cinematic effect" (and would have been more faithful to Tolkien's descriptions of the orcs and Gondorians relative size and strength) to have individual soldiers killing to or three orcs in single combat before getting jumped by about ten of them.