[Faramir Fan]

I had the opportunity to see TTT again recently and something hit me while watching the elves at Helm's Deep sequence. I finally think I understand why PJ did it.<P>In Edoras you have Aragorn and Theoden butting heads, with Theoden saying "When last I looked, Theoden, not Aragorn was King of Rohan."<P>Then later at Helm's Deep when Aragorn is trying to convince Theoden to send out riders. PJ has changed Theoden from the books, where Theoden is very dependent on Gandalf and Aragorn; Gandalf to tell him what to do and Aragorn to lead the battle.<P>But in the movie PJ has made Theoden a little stronger character wise and he buts heads with Gandalf, Aragorn and even Gimli, when they try to tell him what to do. To all of a sudden to have Aragorn commanding Theoden's army, would seem odd. <P>Enter the elves at Helm's Deep, they are are Aragorn's command. He is their General, yelling out commands in elvish and Theoden commands his own men. Yet is is very evident that Theoden is the supreme commander saying to Aragorn "Aragorn...fall back to the keep, get your men out of there." Of course "your men" refering to the elves under his command - interesting choice of words - lol.<P>By bringing the elves to Helm's Deep, PJ accomplished a couple of things. As was said earlier in this thread in the books we knew the elves were not just sitting back that they were fighting on their own borders. In the movie we see that, abiet in the wrong location. But more importantly, we see Aragorn as the commander of a very powerful army and he is a good one at that. Doing it this way, he has now earned Theoden's respect and sets up his command in ROTK.<P>Sorry for such a long post...but I think I finally understand.