[The Saucepan Man]

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR> I wish PJ would put in the Scouring of the Shire sooo bad but he has to cut it out because there's not enough time! <HR></BLOCKQUOTE><P>It is not just because there is insufficient time. The climax of the film will be reached with the Ring being thrown into Mount Doom and the defeat of Sauron, thus releasing the tension built up throughout most of the film. We will then have the happy scene of Aragorn's coronation and his marriage to Arwen and the bittersweet resolution of Frodo's Quest at the Grey Havens. To intersperse these scenes with another tension raising scene involving the Hobbits fighting for their Shire, while fine in the book (and it is one of my favourite chapters too), would not work well in film terms.