The Council of Elrond

[Finduilas]

I have seen the Council mentioned in many threads, where it didn't belong, so I thought I may as well create a thread devoted to it alone.

You are welcome to discuss any part of the Movie council, but I will start off by saying (and asking your opinions on) the following:

Didn't it seem as if the Council of Elrond wasn't any council at all? In the book, they talk of many things

Not all that was spoken and debated in the Council need now be told. Much was said of events in the world outside, especially in the South, and much in the wide lands east of the Mountians...

Now I'm not saying they should have everything that was in there. It would have been hard to do the Council correctly, or accurately, because that would have created a few more story threads, which they felt they didn't have time for, and would have been hard to explain. But they could have had more of the talk of the Ring. After all, many ways were talked over, such as throwing it in the sea, giving it to Bombadil, and I'm sure using it was mentioned. In the movie, everyone was told no one could wield it so it must be destroyed, and as it couldn't be destroyed by "any craft we here possess" that it would have to be taken to Mount Doom. They argued for a bit, but really, it wasn't... well, satisfactory.

And that part where they all blow up at each other...!

I hope that some of the problems that have been brought up on other threads will be here discussed.

-- Finduilas

P.S. Who were the two elves on either side of Elrond? His sons? Glorfindel?