Quote Originally Posted by Gregoshi View Post
At the same time, I wonder why Jackson would see fit to change the staff if it was not written by Tolkien as it is such trivial thing.
One of the things I do like about Jackson in regards to this franchise is he always does something for a specific reason in order to advance the story telling of the books, even if its doing something outrageous and contrary to what happened in them. Elves at helms deep to show the elves were still in the fight, despite their fight occurring "off camera" in the book comes to mind as the biggest example of that.