[Elladan and Elrohir]

The beacon lighting scene is magnificent, as the sweeping mountain shots and the drop-dead gorgeous Shore score remove all memory of Pippin starting it.

Is it just me, or does Aragorn run weird? Obviously, this isn't the first time we've seen him run extensively, even in this film, but it strikes me as strange. Whatever its purpose is for (maybe it's just how Viggo runs), I think it works for the character.

You'll notice that the "Reclamation of Nature" theme (as Shore dubs it) reappears as the Rohirrim charge forward to their camp. This is the theme that first showed up in FOTR with the moth and Gandalf at Orthanc and was also heard in TTT with the Ents' fifty-yard march to Isengard and Theoden's charge from the Hornburg. We'll hear it again in this film, softly as the Rohirrim prepare to charge the Pelennor, and very briefly as the moth shows up again at the Black Gate. One of the most stirring of the film's themes, IMHO.