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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WizarDru" data-source="post: 564906" data-attributes="member: 151">All valid points about how Elrond has changed, and all irrelevant to the movie, IMHO.  Elrond has to carry the weight of a great deal of information already for the uninformed viewer, representing, as he does, the voice of the elves and bearing a great deal of exposition.  The viewing audience is ignorant of all these facts about Elrond, and would benefit little from knowing them.  Elrond has to wear multiple hats in the movie, to show several key points, not just say them.  This changes the character, as you point out, but the movie needs to condense to be approachable.Most of your points reference information not in the movie, and in some cases, not in the books.  Nowhere in the LotR is Elrond's lineage more than hinted at, and it's not really that necessary to the core story.  LotR has far too many characters to protray each as faithfully as possible.  Elrond is, for better or worse, a minor character in the story.  Important, but minor (as opposed to, say Erkenbrand, who is minor AND unimportant).  Well, I certainly didn't get that from my recent re-reading of FotR and TTT.  This may have been more clarified in the appendicies, perhaps, but it's nowhere in the main text...and it's not nearly as interesting on film.The movie doesn't have him leaving, but sending others on ahead.  They've been showing elves leaving in both movies, to reinforce the idea, in preparation for RotK, rather than appearing to pull it from thin air in the last movie.  Elrond standing and staring at the mural with Narsil was fairly telling, IMHO.But I guess my question is, do they need to be?  Does adding these elements enhance the movie, or detract from it?  I agree that Elrond of the books is different from Elrond of the movies...but the movie Elrond is used to deliver a great deal of things that the book Elrond doesn't have to, as there are dozens of other elves to do it for him.  That he is used to generate dramatic tension and a build-up for the Arwen/Aragorn romance is important to the story, unfaithful to his book nature as it may be.</blockquote>

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