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Originally Posted by Macalaure

I don't have a thorough introduction in mind. Elrond's sons are rarely mentioned in the Rivendell chapters anyway. Maybe half a minute screen time at most, just so you remember them when they turn up again in the Elrond-Galadriel-Telepathy-Scene and at the Deep. Let Aragorn remain with Arwen as it is. Maybe it would have slowed the Rivendell scenes, but to the great benefit of the Helm's Deep scene and the Paths of the Dead scene. (And the latter could have used that a lot, but we're still quite a time away from this)
I also wouldn't have minded if Elladan/Elrohir took Glorfindels part in rescuing Frodo instead of Arwen.

I think that PJ et al struggled with having as many characters included as possible yet presenting something that was coherent to a non-book reading audience. With nine people in the Fellowship, Arwen, Bilbo, Elrond, Galadriel, etc, there wasn't much room in the FotR to set up many more characters. My sister was thoroughly confused in TTT with Theoden and kin, not to mention Faramir. "Who are all of these people?" And to include a sub-main character in the Extended Editions? That too could have been hard to accomplish effectively.

My slant is that each character was to be boiled down to a simple idea or caricature so that the audience could easily recognize each's role in the movie.

Plus you have to pay these people...