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Why on earth would you charge Mumakil instead of just avoiding them?
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Comparible to the Charge of the Light Brigade - fool hardy you might say, without hope definately, but hounarable, yes.
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- Frodo sending Sam home. I'm speechless, really.
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understand your point, and it did rankle with me too, but this was done to ramp up the tension as frodo has to escape from shelob himself - as well as this piece in the books works brilliantly for me with both frodo and sam being scared out of their wits, I think the reason it was done this way was to ramp up the excitement of frodo escaping from Shelob - and this was because the director and co probably thought that playing the scene out as the book would jar against the pace of the minas tirith scenes interspersed with the shelob scenes in the movie - tolkien didn;t have this problem......and of course, movie wise, Sam comes back and saves the day.........
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How come the Army of the Dead had to be 'convinced' by Aragorn that he was the King who could free them from their oath? Surely they would have 'sensed' that he was the one?
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Think of it from a movie setting again - in walks aragorn - i'm the king to be, follow me - all right then says king of the dead - wouldn't work, and neither (again like frodo and sam above) would the superb words of tolkien, with the terrifying slow walk through the paths of the dead, with 'the dead following' - again, reasons of pace, we're getting to the end of the trilogy now and jackson has to ramp it up for the final battles - PS, I think he got some of the feeling of oppresion in the EE as the three hunters leave theoden's encampment on their way to the paths of the dead anyway.