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Re:Christopher Tolkien has died by m4r35n357 on Thursday January 16, 2020 @03:42PM (#22068671)
especially considering there were no elves there at all!
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Re:Christopher Tolkien has died by jacobush on Friday January 17, 2020 @05:44AM (#22073566)
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Re:Christopher Tolkien has died by petepete on Saturday January 18, 2020 @06:07PM (#22088021)
In the books the elves didn't come to support the men at Helm's Deep. The battle played a much smaller part in the books than it did the movies - probably because the middle one needed a climax.
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