[Gorwingel]

Oh and <B>Arwen_Evenstar</B> the Scouring is not going to be there. The filmakers annouced about a year ago that it was not going to be part of the films. They decided that they wanted to get the films down to a main storyline. Frodo going to Mordor, Aragorn, you know the deal. They thought that the Scouring would kind of come out of the blue, and the parts of the audience that had not read the book would not understand what was going on. Because truely they did not give that much background about the Shire, they only gave the information that was absolutely necessary.<BR>And I also got confirmation about this when I sat in on the Q and A session at Ringcon with Brad Dourif who plays Wormtounge. One of the people asked about the end of the book and his charater and the Scouring. And he said that they never filmed any scenes for anything like that. He knew about that part, and he had to break it to this person that one of his favorite parts would not be in the films.