Here’s Why the Elves Don’t Fight at Minas Tirith or the Black Gate in ‘The Return of the King’?
The Return of the King sees the absence of Elves in the battles of the Pelennor Fields as well as at the Black Gate for more than one reason.
It's the last battle in a war that may well bring the end of the world, and some of your greatest allies are nowhere to be found. That's the situation Humans find themselves in The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, when they face the armies of Mordor by themselves in the battles of the Pelennor Fields and the Black Gate. One would expect that their allies, like the fearless, wise, and powerful Elves, to join the Humans, but this didn't happen, and, although the Host of the West was victorious in both battles, it was at a heavy cost. So why didn't the Elves come to fight beside humans one last time?
