What happened to all the mercenaries? in The Two Towers when Sam and Frodo and on that hill in front of the balck gate just befor sam falls down the hill. that long colum of human soldiers marches in. in The Return Of The King it was Golem or Elrod who said the dark lord is summoning all armies to him.
Yet in the last battles all that fights are Orcs, Trolls, and the Naz ghoul. well except for the ships but i dont think that can really count seeing as they were killed by the ghost befor they could be of any good.
2006-12-17 10:14:49 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
Oh yes the big elephants i forgot about those.
2006-12-17 10:29:22 · update #1
Actually, some of the "mercenaries" (in the books, they're called Easterlings and Haradrim) are in the last battle of the movie The Return of the King--the ones on the Mumakil.
In the books, Sauron launches attacks throughout Middle Earth--against Lothlorien, the Lonely Mountain dwarves, the Mirkwood elves. Easterlings and Haradrim are involved with those too.
2006-12-17 10:18:55 · answer #1 · answered by someone 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The mercenaries were with the elephants...and on them. Remember in the Two Towers when Sam & Frodo saw the elephants before being caught by Farimer? All you see in the film is the Orcs, Trolls and the Nazghoul at the battle of Minas Tirith...with a few exceptions...but film has it's limitations. Also remember that the wildmen were buring their way across the westfold of Rohan. And there were many on their way to the Shire...in the movies they didn't really touch on what happened in the Shire while the four hobits were gone. They made it look like it was a vision that Frodo had with Galadriel.
Peter Jackson had great vision and a wonderful insite into the Lord of the Rings...and if you ever have read the book and seen the extended version of the movies you would see that he did move some events around to make the movie move along...and tie things together faster. As well as cut alot of items...otherwise each of the movies would have been 12 hours long...I have read the book countless times and each time I discover "new" things I can't imagine how many times or how long he studied it to come up with the movies that he did. Truly three of the greatest movies ever made.
2006-12-17 11:22:22 · answer #2 · answered by Barbiq 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The books are spectacular and additionally verify to study them. they are lots diverse from the flicks, nonetheless. there are entire sections of the e book which do no longer look in the flicks (the character of Tom Bombadil, case in point and an entire plot which occurs whilst the hobbits arrive abode after their adventure.) Arwen's area in the books is quite diverse (the flicks had to furnish Liv Tyler extra to do.) the flicks additionally make Aragorn and Frodo less difficult than they are in the books. on the grounds that those 2 characters are so needed to each thing that occurs, it relatively is large to study the books so which you circulate on a extra finished adventure with each and each of them. appreciate!
2016-10-15 03:28:54 · answer #3 · answered by pereyra 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The mercenaries were all on those large elephants. Also, weren't a few of them on those sailing ships to go fight in Minias Tirith? That was when Aragorn, Legolas, and Gimli jumped out of the ships with the undead.
2006-12-18 04:42:41 · answer #4 · answered by young author 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋