As I said in my post, I've read The Sil. It's actually a lot better than LOTR as Elves are no longer a bunch of Mary Sues.

But now you mention it, one thing I reemmber being very confused about from teh films is hearing about how the Elves are leaving. They really give the impression of "Dark Lord's on the move, screw you guys, we're outta here." Maybe that's just because Movie Elrond is Smith and he's kind of a douchebag but it just felt like the Elves were abandoning the Men of Middle-earth to their fate. The Fading of the Elves is detailed a lot better in the books when we hear about how Galadriel and the others are no more than ghosts and phantoms to most people after the One is destroyed.

And another thing that bugged me about the movie, the insistence on saying "The Age of Men is at an end." Clearly they wanted a mostly Us Humans vs. Them Monsters thing. Only Sauron had plenty of Men under his command. If Sauron won, I don't think much would change for them. They certainly wouldn't be the slaves to the new Orc Empire.