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Compared to the dramatic crescendo of Howard Shore's music rising in the movie as Elrond declares "you shall be the Fellowship of the Ring" at the end of the council, the book's selection of the Fellowship is a lot more perfuntory: Elrond chooses who will go and mostly does it offscreen--and largely separate from the council.

In a way,this is the opposite of the movies where the choice to go is dramatic, but their number means nothing--here, nine is explicitly Elrond's goal.

The departure by night from Rivendell is one of those iconic mental-pictures-uncolured-by-the-movies, including the blowing of Boromir's horn and Gimli trading sayings with Elrond,