First off, a note to the reader: this does not bear on the topic, it is an offtopic explanation of my comment:The Tennis Ball Kid wrote:Why would the canonist weep?
Movie: Elrond sends some Elves to Aragorn's aid, and they show up at Helm's Deep.
Book: Elrond sends his sons along with some rangers to Aragorn's aid, and they show up a couple days after the battle.
The main difference_ as I see it_ is that due to time constraints the Northern Kingdom is left out of the Movie, so all we see is Elves. Of course they also don't bring him the symbol of his Kingship (Book: The Banner Arwen sewed;Movie: The sword Arwen made Daddy reforge), but that's only because he cut out the whole Arwen at Helm's Deep thing...which would have made me weep.
Okay, the canonist weeps for several reasons. First of all, the elves of Lorien are not under the command of Elrond. He is, by rights, the elven overlord of middle-earth, but since he never assumed Gil-galad's crown, he has no actual authority, and he never exercised it anyway.
Furthermore, Haldir and company ought to be guarding Lorien. Its under attack from Dol Guldur, for Morgoth's sake! In addition, the Last Alliance at the end of the Second Age is just that: the LAST Alliance of Elves and Men. Even the movie's prologue acknowledges that.
Also, Haldir is a marchwarden, not a general. He shouldn't be commanding this.
In addition, just as a note, Elladan and Elrohir were not sent by Elrond. They came of their own will. That they brought word from their father is just a courtesy. These two would have come anyway. They'd been ork-hunting with the Arnorian rangers for centuries. If you think they were going to sit in Rivendell and pick off the few leftovers that came over the mountains when there were whole armies to fight in Gondor....
Besides, they looked at Aragorn as a brother (and a future brother-in-law, what's more), so they had their own reasons for coming.
As for the Aragorn/sword/movieElrond thing...
I won't go there. I've said enough.
Matter of opinion, those curved elven swords do NOT look right to me...The Tennis Ball Kid wrote:On personal note I thought it was cool (because) it looked like something out of the Silmarillion.
But I have to agree that they looked cool, and there is no denying that it is a great moment in the movie. I just don't like it from a Tolkien fan's perspective, whatever Mr. Movie-Me thinks.
Anyways, this nitpicking will hopefully not affect your building, Jon_p. Your stuff is great, and the fact that its movie-based, while not something I'm likely to do, is okay. They are, after all, epically great movies.