No crying in the rain - where's Disney?

[Tuor of Gondolin]

Originally posted by Boromir88
"I've always had this great mental picture of the scene where Theoden dies, and the sun comes poking out, "breaking the dark clouds of Mordor." "
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The darkness, caused by Sauron, was actually more dramatically broken earlier,
and in one of PJ's big goofs, he missed that whole dramatic scene by portraying
Theoden's charge all in daylight:

Suddenly the king cried to Snowmane and the horse sprang away. Behind him his banner blew in the wind, white horse upon a field of green, but he outpaced it......but Theoden could not be overtaken.....His golden shield was uncovered, and lo! it shone like an image of the Sun, and the grass flamed into green about the white feet of his steed. For morning came, morning and a wind from the sea; and darkness was removed, and the hosts of Mordor wailed, and terror took them, and they fled, and died, and the hoofs of wrath rode over them. And then all the host of Rohan burst into song [another bit botched by PJ] , and they sang as they slew, for the joy of battle was on them, and the sound of their singing that was fair and terrible came even to the City.

Oh, and in the movie, it did rain in Bree.