Council of Elrond regular Fran recently did a bit of screencapping from a Two Towers bootleg. She discovered something interesting.

It appears that WETA missed a few shots of Arwen at Helm’s Deep, and that if you look closely enough – and freezeframe an awful lot – you can probably spot her in the final charge.

Here’s the proof. We think.


Seems some strange things are going bump in the night. Folks from The Council of Elrond Message Board have an interesting theory into the possibility that Liv Tyler (Arwen) was indeed at Helms Deep, and later digitally removed – and even transformed into Legolas! However … some compelling (albeit fuzzy) pictures show that they may not have been able to remove her entirely … read on! [More]

Update: Council-of-Elrond.com seem to be having problems with the load of TORn’s interest – we’ve mirrored the images to take the load off their server. Sorry, CoE guys :-\

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