![]() ![]() There are instances of mooks and redshirts dying from a single blow despite being encased in armour-armour specifically mentioned to be of exceptional quality, at that.Notable since the trope is heavily averted in the rest of the movie, with Legolas himself one-shotting many enemies. ![]() Annoying Arrows: The Uruk-hai berserker with the bomb-igniting torch at Helm's Deep keeps running unimpeded even though Legolas hits him twice.No quarter is given to them and the film extends none of the pathos given to human villains to them. Always Chaotic Evil: Orcs and Uruk-Hai are portrayed as cannibalistic murderers bred for evil who enjoy little else but violence and insults.Aragorn clarifies that the beard is the source of the confusion. Alien Gender Confusion: Gimli explains to Éowyn that humans sometimes assume that Dwarves reproduce asexually because Dwarf women look so much like the men.Quickbeam the Ent appears in the crowd shots, Demoted to Extra. Adapted Out: Ghan-buri-Ghan and Elrond's sons Elladan and Elrohir are also absent.This is eliminated from the film, so it's not explained how Gandalf is so up-to-date on what's been happening in Rohan. Adaptation Explanation Extrication: Gandalf stops at Rohan in the first book before going to Rivendell, attempting to warn Théoden about Saruman's FaceHeel Turn - but Gríma Wormtongue has already started poisoning his mind.It's the opening scene of the movie here. Adaptation Expansion: The fight between Gandalf and the Balrog was only briefly mentioned and never described in the book.The DVD commentary states that Jackson didn't feel that Faramir's assertion that he'd have nothing to do with the Ring didn't gel with what a corruptive and seductive influence it's made out to be. Adaptational Villainy: Although never a villain, Faramir was more hostile to the hobbits in the movie than he was in the books, and is tempted by the Ring, until Samwise tells him what the Ring did to Boromir.Faramir had made up his mind not to take the ring before Frodo or Sam told him not to.The ents decided to march on Isengard without prompting from Merry and Pippin.It was Rohans most impregnable fortress and the distance to Isengard was shorter, meaning Sarumans army would do less damage on the way. In the book, nobody questioned Theodens decision to fight at Helms Deep instead of Edoras.Adaptational Heroism: Downplayed, but some attempts were made to make the main characters seem more heroic at the expense of other characters:.Faramir's speech speculating about what a dead soldier's life is like was a bit of narration in the book going over Sam's thought.This changes the meaning of the line from "no matter what you hear tonight, it won't harm you" to something more like "sleep tight, don't let the bedbugs bite". When they decided to cut Bombadil from the film adaption they gave this line and some others to Treebeard in Fangorn forest. In the book, the whole "fear no nightly noise" speech was said by Tom Bombadil in his house in the Old Forest on the borders of the Shire.While in the movie, it is said to refer to Sauruman's tower of Orthanc, and Sauron's tower of Barad-dûr, in the book it refers to Orthanc, and Minas Morgul, the city Frodo, Sam, and Gollum pass on the way to Shelob's lair in The Return of the King, an event which took place in the book version of The Two Towers. Surprisingly, the title itself is subject to this.Actually Pretty Funny: When Gimli and Legolas are standing guard at Helm's Deep and Gimli can't see over the ramparts.Women can be glimpsed in the army of elves that show up at Helm's Deep too. Action Girl: There are also female warriors among the Easterling army.Likewise, there are many flashback scenes that show Aragorn and Arwen's romance. Frodo and Sam have many scenes that show The Power of Friendship.Theoden also delivers a monologue where he doubts whether the Rohirrim can win and wonders what will become of his kingdom. While the film has a very loud build-up with the arrival of Saruman's army at Helm's Deep, the extended edition cuts away from this bombastic action to focus on cowering civilians in the caves underneath, with the Uruks chanting in the distance.Action Bomb: During the battle at Helm's Deep, the Uruk-hai placed a bomb in the drainage tunnel at Helm's Deep, with an Uruk with a torch blowing himself up to set it off.Acoustic Licence: When Saruman is addressing his army of ten thousand Uruk-hai, his voice appears to be magnified by magical means. ![]()
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