I did wonder about this in the films. They're wearing fine plate male, have mithril helmets and are supposed to be skilled warriors - the ones who have kept Mordor at bay all these years.

Yet they do get beaten up so easily.

Maybe Peter Jackson wanted to portray the total overwhelming number of enemy soldiers...but even so, that doesn't really mean the Gondorians had to be so pathetic.

yeah, but no warrior can match the skill of the high elves. i guess that the soldiers of gondor would be better if the odds were a bit more even. but still, they should not die so easily, with their heavy armour and all.

oh yeah, your right.

bleh, Morgoth had bigger army, and still lost with Noldo and Edains ;p

actually 3, if you count Frodo, Sam and Gollum :]

but I think that the Ring was destroyed by itself

hmm it's a bit philosophical problem - we can say, that th Ring is thing which everyone wants and it's making evil out of intensions of bearer (doesnt matter - good or bad), so Ring was injecting lies and evil thoughts into Gollum and Frodo's minds, so it destiny (we can explain it as Sauron's thoughts and bad intensions covering bearers life - as it was with Morgoth and children of Hurin ) brought it to the end. So if the Ring was part of Sauron, we can say that (at least partly) it was destroyed by itself.

hmm I hope I wrote what I was thinking about