[The Saucepan Man]

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR> I think it put a nice touch to the movies, but while I was reading the book, I had the impression that most elves just cared about themselves and would go off to the undying lands if Middle Earth ever really did come to mayhem. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE><P>In fact, Lothlorien was under attack from Dul Guldur during the War of the Ring. And I think that the peoples of Thranduil, Brand and Dain II were too.<P>On other threads, the point has been made that it would have been clumsy and time-consuming to show these other battles, so the Elves were at Helms Deep to make up for this - to show that they too were involved in the War of the Ring. I tend to go along with this because much the same line of thinking occured to me while watching the film.