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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WizarDru" data-source="post: 297498" data-attributes="member: 151">Media decisions.  In the books, we learn about the sword, but in the movie, it would look silly, IMHO.  Screen time is valuable, and having to break the flow of the race from Bree and the battle on weathertop for some exposition about the sword of Isildur to counteract the fact that this mighty hero is running around would have broken the tension and just not looked good on the screen.BTW, let's not sell Glorfindel short.  He's not just some elf, he's a terrible and mighty elf noble whose full glamour is terrible to behold.  A normal elf against a single ringwraith would almost certainly go poorly for the elf.  (And for the record, I don't have a problem with Arwen taking his admitedly very short role in the movie...I thought it worked well, and removed one more character from a very crowded stage).Further, trying to cast LOTR in D&D terms is an interesting mental exercise, but ultimately pointless.  The LOTR world doesn't match D&D (try balancing a Tolkien elf to a human, for example).  The good Colonel worked on a d20 LOTR project, and can speak better to this than I can, but the point is that many things operate differently in LOTR than in D&D 3E. Lastly, remember that you're comparing the single most powerful beings of Middle-Earth against each other.  The Nazgul can slaughter normal Commoner 1s and Warrior 1s with abandon...and most of the world is populated with those.  Pointing out that a Ranger 20/Numenorean King5 can hold them off seems a tad silly. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>

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