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Marvelous Middle Movie
I loved the Battle of Helm's Deep. When Legolas and Gimli arrive at Helms Deep, they discover they are desperately short of manpower, and when Aragorn arrives and tells of the thousands coming to defeat them, all but these three are filled with despair. Then help comes, from an unexpected source. Now, with slightly more manpower, Helm's Deep awaits attack. The orcs come, and take their places. Aragorn gives the word, and the army releases their arrows.

So the battle begins. On the good side, many people, dwarfs, and elves are killed, and on the evil side, many orcs are killed. Men are shown falling off Helm's Deep's monstrous wall to the ferocious orcs below, while orcs are shown being cut apart by the swords of the warriors on the good side. In the end of the battle, when Helm's Deep's defending army finds itself outnumbered, Gandalf comes with another army, and the orcs are destroyed.

Another fascinating part of this movie is the battle between the talking trees and Saruman's army. A talking tree is taking Merry and Pippin back to the Shire. One of them suggests that they take a longer route to get there. While on this route, this tree sees the destruction that befell many of his kind. He howls in rage, and also to get the other talking trees to join him. Together, these trees throw enormous boulders at a dam holding water back from flooding the grounds where orcs were produced, and at the orcs themselves. While some of the trees are set on fire, the orcs succumb to the power of the trees.

For battle excitement without gore, don't miss this movie!

A world of improvement!!!
Dear Fans: The extra 48 minutes in this "version" are a step up in the trilogy. It improves the whole movie, given the fact that in my opinion the theatrical version left out many details, or did not develop certain passages of the book to an appropiate level of detail, but how many minutes can you stand in a movie theatre? That is not the case of a DVD that you can watch in the comfort of your own home.

The experience is greatly improved, specially for die hard fans such as myself. I was rather disapointed in the theatres and now I can't wait for the extended version of The Return of The King wich is rumored to have an extra hour and a half of footage.

Beware, if you love the books
There are shockingly senseless departures from Tolkien.

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