The Battle of Helm's Deep has been named as one of the greatest screen battles of all time, while Gollum was named as the third favourite computer-generated film character by Entertainment Weekly in 2007.
Bitka kod Helmove klisure proglašena je jednom od najboljih filmskih bitaka svih vremena, dok je Gollum izabran kao treći najuvjerljiviji kompjuterski stvoren filmski lik u izboru časopisa Entertainment Weekly 2007.