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Originally Posted by Elladan and Elrohir

The Houses of Healing scene is gorgeous, and I absolutely love the song Liv Tyler sings during the scene. The downside is that it means Pippin's finding of Merry is postponed to evening, so that we're left with Peregrin Took, searching alone among all the bodies for one who did one of the greatest deeds of the battle. Not even Gandalf stays to help.

This might have been due to originally having Pip out there with everyone else in the daylight, but due to recutting the film for the EE version, not wanting to go back to 'daylight' after the 'Eowyn healing' scene, as it might make viewers think that Merry wasn't found until the next day.

Amazingly the green slime didn't clean up before they left.

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Also, Pippin searching alone for Merry is akin to the books. Merry was wondering around ignored, and this compares (as he points out himself) to how he was also ignored by the Witch King, and thus able to defeat the WK with Eoywn and therefore enable Frodo to save Middle-earth.

As I said above, I just wish movie Merry spoke the line 'are you here to bury me?'