[HCIsland]

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR> However I reckon that PJ after filming the scenes with the elves got reminded by one of his assistants that no elves should have partaken in the battle so he simply killed them off instead of deleting the scenes. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE><BR>Whether you agree with the change or not, there is no way PJ didn't know that there were no elves at Helm's Deep in the book. This was a conscious decision on his part.<P>Personally, I don't like the statistical improbability of having Aragorn, Legolas and Gimli being the only survivors of the soldiers stationed on the Deeping Wall. This can be addressed rather easily by having a couple of elves being in the background early in RotK (or even better, the EE TTT). <P>Somehow, I don't think this will happen because then people will be asking what happened to them. Did they just join the forces of the Rohirrim? Did they go home? Perhaps they should have journeyed with Aragorn? No, likely the simplest thing for PJ to do is just not to show them anymore and leave it at that.<P>H.C.