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Could just be simple dumbing down? It seems to me that most "popular" films are very wary of assuming any intelligence at all on the part of the viewer. Thus Legolas (who admittedly doesn't get a huge amount of dialogue in the books) becomes "Captain Obvious".
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“But Finrod walks with Finarfin his father beneath the trees in Eldamar.”
Christopher Tolkien, Requiescat in pace
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