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Originally posted by: Rebel Scumb
So your saying if there had abeen an army of elves fighting with the rohan riders in the battle of the pelenor fields you wouldn't have liked ROTK? lots of things in the movies go against the books, and the movies are all the better for it.
that would have be too big of a change, it is like the idea that PJ had to bring back sauron.
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I'm not suggesting the dundedan or the sons of elrond should come to Helms deep (though actually they came a long time after Helms deep if you remember)
you sure i was positive that they came with aragorns friend at helms deep.
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I'm suggesting that NOBODY came and it was just the rohan there to fight off the Uruks until Gandalf and Eomer arrived. Bringing the elves took away from the plight of the men, and in the end they all died so it felt pointless.
that would have work i dont mind that idea
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And as a fan of the books I can't help but be struck by the lack of logic in their arrival. The Uruks left before the elves and only had to go from Isengard to Helms deep, while the elves came from Lotherlien which is 20 times farther (check out the maps) and left after the uruks had been deployed, yet arrived ahead of the Uruks? Not to mention that Haldir brought word from Elrond, yet he lives with and serves Galadrial, and would likely have no knowldege of what Elrond was up to. It all just seems silly to me, and doesn't really add anything to the story.
you see that is the movie logic, in the book it wasnt the elves who came it was the rangers, and they set out long b4 the battle of helms deep was to have started. i should add that rangers can move very fast and light when they want to so the logic works in the book.