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You want to argue on the merits? Fine. I asked you specifically where you got off criticizing the teleportation devices in TTT when they are none in the film ... BUT ... you ignored it. I asked you about the Lurtz name objection that you voiced ... BUT ... you ignored that.~Sauron
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That was me who brought up that stuff, not
elempi.
Anyway, as
Lal said, the teleportation was a joke to poke fun at exactly how the Elves got there. As it creates a distance problem with the movies. (One noticed not just be the 'book people' but many many movie fans who question the same thing). In the movies Gimli at the beginning of TTT says they have been on pursuit for 3 days (this would be from about Amon Hen and into Rohan).
The Elves presumably came from Lothlorien, which is much farther than the distance Aragorn et all were able to travel in '3 days.' Yet in the films the Elves manage to arrive their overnight? Plus as Lal says they would have had to of gotten past the Uruk-hai army...so how do they do it? This isn't explained in the films and you see it does create a problem with distance. So, I made a joke that the Elves teleported there as that is the only explanation I can think of how they got there so fast. This wouldn't create a problem in the movies if Jackson didn't feel the need to change things around and throw in a bunch of Elves. Why couldn't he have used the 2,000 Rohirrim soldiers who were fighting in Helm's deep? This has been noticed by many many people to and has been a consistant question in the Movie forums.
The Uruk dude Aragorn kills at the end of FOTR is Lurtz. There is no such character in the books. The Uruk-hai's are led by Ugluk and the group from Mordor is led by Grishnakh. In TTT it is Ugluk who leads the Uruk-hai, but for some reason Jackson invented this Lurtz character that got pep talks from Saruman and then gets killed by Aragorn in FOTR. So, I see it as Jackson inventing his own character.