[Kalimac]

Good question! I don't recall seeing a survivor-Elf - and even though they're a fading people and all that, it still seems like they would go down with more of a fight than that. If even a few untrained, underaged, underequipped Rohirrim can survive that assault, a few of the Elves should have been able to make it.<P>My guess is that the reason they all vanished at the end of the battle (presumably died) is that the post-battle logistics would get complicated, as in the books Elves were never at Helm's Deep. What would surviving Elves do? In terms of "renewing the old alliance" or whatever it was that Haldir said, it would make sense for them to stick with the Rohirrim, as the battles are by no means over. It would seem a little callous to go "Well, that one's over. We're off to the Havens. See ya at the end of the world." But if they stay, then you're going to have these very noncanonical Elves tagging along with the Rohirrim all the way through ROTK (or possibly going with Aragorn to the Paths - they would fit in better there than at the Muster of Rohan, but they'd still be oddly placed anywhere).<P>So they probably died because PJ couldn't figure out what to do with them afterwards. Just my $0.02.