Additions that didn't help ROTK

[Mister Underhill]

I'm gonna go against the seeming general consensus and call out Pippin's song as an inappropriate addition. <P>I don't recall Pippin's exact lines in the movie when he's asked to sing by Denethor, but they're close enough in spirit to his book response: ‘[I sing] well enough for my own people. But we have no songs fit for great halls and evil times, lord. We seldom sing of anything more terrible than wind or rain. And most of my songs are about things that make us laugh; or about food and drink, of course.’<P>But when Denethor insists that he sing anyway -- in the movie -- he busts out a melancholy dirge that would have caused the most sullen and gloomy Elves in history to nod their approval. <P>If PJ really wanted to milk that moment, I almost would have preferred Pippin attempting to sing one of his rustic Shire songs, maybe breaking down towards the end, unable to continue. Another example of how PJ & Co's inventions almost always run the train right off the tracks.