Answer 1. Because the elves weren't really at Helm's Deep (in the book), so movie-Aragorn's level of surprise went off the charts when Haldir died. (It's a joke, children.)<P>Answer 2. Movie-gorn was glad to have some real-life trained soldiers come as reinforcements to Helm's Deep, since Theoden and he were stuck with 2 to 3 hundred old men and boys. Oh, and one dwarf with ill-fitting mail and an elf with an attitude. I suppose that in the movie, Eomer was able to abscond with the entire army of Rohan when he was banished.<P>Answer 3 (real?). I would think that Haldir and Aragorn would have met in the past when Aragorn was in Lothlorien (LotR Appendix A). And perhaps also during other of Aragorn's historical adventures, also listed in the Appendix.
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For I was talking aloud to myself. A habit of the old: they choose the wisest person present to speak to; the long explanations needed by the young are wearying. -Gandalf, The Two Towers
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