Yes, the Weeping Women of Rohan. IMO, it would have been just as valid to play the scene with them stoicly sending their children to fight, exhorting them to do well. I hold that it would have been more true to the nature of a warrior people; for example, the Romans or Vikings.
But, we've had this argument before, you PJ-bot you. ;)
I love having arguments I have had before.
I would not have affection for a people whose mothers would send children to die without a tear.
Shya, ask her about editing. Then you'll see that her PJ-Botness is a mile wide but only an inch deep.