Dissapearing Easterlings?

[Twista]

I cant work out where all the east-folk went in the RoTK. In TTT you see a great deal walking through the black gate, and hear Faramir speaking of thousands more, but in the movie RoTK you only see about 10 Mumakil ( and what, 8 soldiers on each? so thats 80 of them accounted for ). Where did all the other easterlings armies go??

Maybe its obvious? someone put me straight please...

[Nurvingiel]

It made sense that there weren't very many Mumakil - I can only imagine how hard it would be to raise one and train it for war.

Not all parts of such a giant battle can be shown, and it was implied that they were at the battle. I think you can see the rest of the army on foot behind the Mumakil.

[Thorin II]

I didn't really notice, but I do think the scene suggests a larger battle going on the background.

I was disappointed that no mention was made of the other battles in Middle-Earth (Lorien, Lonely Mountain, etc.). I can see why PJ didn't want to film them, but I was surprised none of the characters mentioned it. I always liked the thought of the war being fought all across the world.

[Twista]

Why didnt PJ want to film them out of interest? Does that mean they wont b in the EE either? Thats a bit annoying.

[Nurvingiel]

I guess he didn't have time. (Why didn't he film the Scouring? *goes off muttering*)

[Dúnedain]

Originally posted by Thorin II
I didn't really notice, but I do think the scene suggests a larger battle going on the background.

I was disappointed that no mention was made of the other battles in Middle-Earth (Lorien, Lonely Mountain, etc.). I can see why PJ didn't want to film them, but I was surprised none of the characters mentioned it. I always liked the thought of the war being fought all across the world.

That was why they brought the Elven soldiers to Helm's Deep. To show that the battles included others. Then again they should have brought Dwarves too

Originally posted by Twista
Why didnt PJ want to film them out of interest? Does that mean they wont b in the EE either? Thats a bit annoying.

In the books there was like only a few sentences that even mentioned it, and I think that may even have only been in the Appendices. Besides, that would have totally taken away from the theme and storyline, because you can't just film a random battle without introducing new characters. Without introducing characters, no one would care about those battles enough and these scenes would have been counter-productive and could have taken away from the story we know more...