I'm not sure if I'm looking forward to Helm's Deep or not. I'm not much for battle scenes...for example, the first time I watched the movie I was REALLY ready for the movie to move on by the time the cave troll died. Enough of the battling, get back to the STORY!
I don't mind it so much now that I've seen it a few times, but usually action just makes me impatient. Though there's also a lot of interesting character parts during the battle, so maybe it'll be better than I think!
The ring beyond was filled with steaming water: a bubbling cauldron, in which there heaved and floated a wreckage of beams and spars, chests and casks and broken gear. Twisted and leaning pillars reared their splintered stems above the flood. but all the roads were drowned. Far off, it seemed, half veiled in winding cloud, there loomed the island rock. Still dark and tall, unbroken by the storm, the tower of Orthanc stood. Pale waters lapped about its feet. The king and all his company sat silent on their horses, marvelling, perceiving that the power of Saruman was overthrown; but how they could not guess. And now they turned their eyes towards the archway and the ruined gates. There they saw close beside them a great rubble-heap; and suddenly they were aware of two small figures lying on it at their ease, grey-clad, hardly to be seen among the stones. There were bottles and bowls and platters laid beside them, as if they had just eaten well, and now rested from their labour. One seemed asleep; the other, with crossed legs and arms behind his head, leaned back against a broken rock and sent from his mouth long wisps and little rings of thin blue smoke.
Is that because elves are going down? :)