Yeah that would have been nice but I guess it was kinda the same as how they cut out the whole Tom Bombadil story from FOTR.

I understand it's next to impossible to put everything in the movies but it frustrated me how they changed some of the little things too, one that springs to mind is that in the books Aragorn carries around the shards of Narsil with him and in the movie they're on display at Rivendell. I think that could have been put in the movie without too much trouble.

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