Kath: Consider yourself a duck.
With whom would you like to play the last days of the game: lmp, Boromir & Firefoot (f.ex. - other combinations possible), or with Gil-Galad, Gandalf and Legolas in Spandex (other combinations possible)? You see the point? They want to get rid of certain people, and love certain others...
I don't think that seeing this takes any more intelligence - not to speak of werecreatury - than to add 3+5