And Merry and Pippin (in the movie)...who in Rivendell so insisted on going with Frodo ...tell Frodo to run when they could all have stayed under cover and avoided the Orcs. Okay Pippin is clueless sometimes :) but he should have been afraid enough of the Orcs to keep hidden!
I like the way the scene was handled in the book better. In the book, there is always this "tension" [I'm too lazy to consult a thesarus for a better word] between Frodo not wanting to put his friends in danger and his friends not wanting to let Frodo go it alone. So you're always wondering if it's Frodo or his friends who will win that contest. For Aragorn, Merry, and Pippin to just let him go ruins the whole thing! :)
Once the DVD comes out, I'll be able to argue these points better. (sigh, smile!)