I think the arrival of Rohan should have been done differently: The Morgul Lord is on A HORSE, directing the battering ram Grond. Then he rides triumphantly through the ruined gate where he is confronted by Gandalf. Just before the Morgul Lord prepares to smash Gandalf, a cock crows to the rising sun, the Horns of Rohan are heard in the distance, and Howard Shore's music kicks in helping the audience feel the tide turning; much as the Rohirrim felt singing during battle.<P>Dare I say; like in the book.<P>Mordor was too small.<P>When The One went into the fire, the camera angle should have switched to Gandalf's view, and they see "a shadow rising above the mountains, lightning crowned and malevolent but shortly blown away by the wind. THEN Barad-dur falls and the ground splits etc.<P>Arwen should have been preparing the "Banner of the King" from the first movie - and we see it raised upon the ship's mast when Aragorn arrives during the Pelannor Fields.<P>I wanted to see the Morgul Host issuing from Minas Morgul a little longer...only because it was so neat to finally see it instead of read it!
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