Something I missed on the list which was a bone of contention between the Studio and Jackson was that we should not only get a recap of FOTR at the start of TTT but also Galadriel also had a prologue…

So a few things can be inferred from this.

We start the film with Frodo and sam wandering about lost they go to sleep. Now we have galadriels voiceover and cut to Gollem crawling down the mountain on “somone else now hunts the ring”.

This also means when Gandalf explains his encounter with the balrog to Aragorn Gimli and Legolass we get both flashbacks concurrently as one scene or whole story at the same time.

As stated previously the latter part of Galadriels monologue is taken from the council of elves scene without any input from celeborn or Elrond.

Now intetestingly it might be the case that Elrond was to open film 3 with his lines “The Alliance between Elves and men is over… The End has come” Now this dialogue could be lifted from a scene we have not seen or partially seen but it seems to me this is a confirmation of men are on their own to fight this final great battle and the elves can no longer intervene but this would be prior to Arwen persuading Elrond to re-forge Narsil and that Arwen’s life and the possible future child are in doubt so Elrond has to be persuaded to intervene but not directly like they did at helms deep. This really would not work with the Smeagol finds the ring flashback but perhaps directly afterwards prior to the party at the great hall of Rohan which shows Legolass and Gimli having drinking games and clearly distant of the men celebrating.

Anyway that about wraps up the analysis of what has been seen and heard thus far.

There is another scene not mentioned where Aragorn talks to Eowyn as she lies on a bench and Aragorn is kneeling beside her.

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