Additions That Really Added Something

[Lalaith]

I agree with those who mentioned Theodred's funeral, the beacons and the two children escaping from the fall of the Westfold. The little girl crying for her mother brings a tear to my eye too, and that brave boy falling off his horse with exhaustion...<P>But overall I think the best addition PJ has made has been the pathos added to the battle scenes. The sense of fighting against immeasurable, hopeless odds, thinking you will almost certainly die but fighting nonetheless because you know it is the right thing to do. <BR>This feeling comes across very strongly in the Silmarillion, in the fight of men and elves against Melkor, but rather less so, I think, in the book of LotR. It is a very moving and uplifting thing to see on screen and I applaud the film-makers for conveying it so beautifully.