> Agreed. With both reasons you gave. Now, the
> slightly expanded role she had in film one
> didn't gall me *too* much, but I'm kind of
> nervous about film two. If there was anything
> that could "ruin" the film for me, it would be
> throwing Arwen in where she doesn't belong.
> It's one thing to omit or combine characters
> and events, like replacing Glorfindel with
> Arwen. Totally different is the explanding of a
> character and throwing in new events that the
> author never wrote or intended.
>
> A friend and I were speculating on how Arwen
> might be involved in The Two Towers, and he
> pointed out that in the book, Narsil (the broken
> sword of Elendil) was reforged and renamed
> Anduril in Imladris, and Aragorn took it with
> him when the Fellowship set out. He was
> given a new sheath for it in Lothlorien. All of
> this was missing from film one. So perhaps
> Arwen's part will simply be to bring Aragorn
> his sword, and then WHOOPS gets caught up
> in the battle? Who knows?
>
> Well, some of you who've already seen the
> movie do.

In the book (although I think it's in the final volume), she sends him a flag and his horse, via a group of his own men who turn up for the battle, along with her brothers Eladan and Elrohir. This would be the battle of Minas Tirith, not Helm's Deep. It seems like that would be the most obvious point for her reappearance.

Brunnen-"this is just me being a Tolkien geek, not suggesting what ought to happen in the movie"G