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ost_uid0]Well the movie introduced me to the books, which is always a good thing, so....
Most LotR fans can overlook most of the discrepancies between the book and the movie except the Elves being at Helm's Deep. Although I've heard one theory that the Elves being there were kind of Peter Jackson's way of exemplifying how battles against Sauron were being fought all over Middle-Earth and it wasn't just Men vs. Orcs, or something.
Me, I personally think Jackson just put them in so that he could have a cool host of Elven warriors with their long hair and shiny armor.
This is the reason why I'm not re-reading ROTK until [i
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ost_uid0] December 17th because I know if I have my memory refreshed, I'll just sit there screaming at Peter Jackson and won't enjoy the movie as much as I should.
And Sa'ar, I agree-- it was just plain [i
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ost_uid0] to turn Gimli into a form of comic relief. Just. Wrong.[/color
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