" He was contemptuous of her love for humans: "You feel so much for these humans, yet you feel nothing for me.Elrond (Hugo Weaving), the mighty Lord of Rivendell, arrived - after returning from hunting the pack of Orcs.Eastwood plays a weakened, once-violent but reformed gunfighter - and an aging pig farmer - in this serious, dark, film-noirish, violent tale of retribution that concludes with a climactic and bloody showdown.Joe: And supposin' I don't?Ryker: You and the other squatters...This is a tense, violent confrontation between the fence-building homesteaders, and the open-range land cow ranchers - an allegory of the settlement and progressive civilization of the West.