The Only Real Estel:
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But the horse rule seemed like a rather small nuance to me.
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Trust me, I wasn't bothered by it either, it was just served for my purposes of building up to the Beregond-Treason vs. Gandalf-trespassing and assault ramble.
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Well, according to PJ's version it would've been. A few hundred men (& presumably no outstanding archers among them, other than Aragorn & Legolas)
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Well, if PJ would have done some searching here is an argument for his "few hundred men at helm's deep argument." The book makes clear Theoden had 1,000 men (which includes the 750 Rohirrim under Eomer) and Gamling had 1,000 men, which makes up for the 2,000 or so elves at helm's deep.
And here is the text to support my argument.
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The King of the Golden Hall
At the gate they found a great host of men, old and young, all ready in the saddle. More then 1,000 were mustered.
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That was Theoden and Eomer's men. Now for Gamling, when they first meet him at helm's deep.
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Helm's Deep
"Maybe we have a thousand fit to fight on foot," said Gamling.
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Now we know that famous quote from Legolas in the movie, in his elvish talk "10,000 against 300!" So unless PJ is trying to rationalize 1,700 people died in the Warg Attack that never happened, I would think PJ's "few hundred argument" has been demolished. (Estel, I don't mean anything towards you, just some things PJ does to try to rationalize "changes" he made gets me mad. I can understand if he said, I'm trying to bring in a bigger fan base, or frankly said, I didn't like the way it was written, but this right here is what I don't like about him.)