[Thenamir]

You know, PJ has never shied away from including overt religious references in the films so far. For example: <P><UL TYPE=SQUARE><LI>The scene in FOTR where Frodo and Sam are crossing the wheatfield is a direct nod to the story of Jesus crossing the grainfields with his disciples. Sam's plaintive statement "If I take one more step, it'll be the farthest away from home that I've ever been" is a plain reference to how far the disciples had come in their instruction, but how far they still had to go.<P><LI>Tolkien's invention of the Ents (and PJ inclusion of them in the films) harks back to the description in Isaiah of the trees of the field breaking forth in shouts and clapping their hands.<P><LI>Gandalf's staff in Moria is an obvious reference to God's creative power evidenced in Genesis when He said "Let there be light!"<P><LI>The representation of Gimli at Helm's Deep, too short to see over the wall in front of him is a direct incorporation of the story of Zaccheus, the short man who could not see the action over the crowd in the Gospels.<BR></UL><P>There are other examples too numerous to mention. Surely PJ would not eliminate such a completely canonical line, so crucial to the continuing plot tension, even if it is an obvious Biblical reference.<P>