Helm's Deep
In earlier versions of the script, Arwen fought in the Battle of Helm's Deep and brought the sword Andúril to Aragorn. Some scenes of Arwen fighting in Helm's Deep were filmed before both the film's writers (with Liv Tyler's approval) reconsidered the change and deleted her from the sequence. The critic John D. Rateliff comments on the deletion of what he calls "Arwen, " that it was a wise decision, though "at the cost of reducing her to a sort of Lady of Shallott languishing for most of the final two films".