Message in a Battle
The WP has a tale titled The Messages in a Battle about the recent growth of computer-generated battle scenes in movies, now that you don't have to pay all those extras. RotK clearly wouldn't have been much of a movie if the battle scenes hadn't been so good.
if Legolas hadn't snowboarded down the stairs on his shield
I can understand where you might find it disconcerting - but it is in the book.
What exactly is your problem with Slashdot and the editors here? This is a free website. They don't owe you or anyone else anything. If you cannot stand the way this site is run then why don't you simply stop coming here?
Mac OS X and Windows XP working side by side to fight back the night.