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@Elestan: Thank you! I absolutely agree with you! I agree with all the points you made, but I also feel like if they added in the Scouring of the Shire, it would've stretched the movie out too much after the end of the main conflict (that's actually what PJ said about adding the Scouring). They added Frodo going to Osgiliath so they could push the Cirith Ungol stuff into Return of the King because they removed that.