First of all, Steve, it is called the <I>Scouring </I> of the shire. I cannot count how many times people on this website have called it scourging, but it is wrong.<P>Second of all, the Scouring of the Shire would simply not work in the movies because A) it is anti-climactic and would not appeal to mass audiences (lest we forget, the movies are an attempt to make the most possible money, a commercial investment) and B) the movie has greatly shifted the focus from the tale of the hobbits to the tale of Aragorn (a clear example of this is the skimped "plot" that any of the hobbits received in the Two Towers movie. Think about it, Frodo and Sam did not accomplish a thing in all their on-screen time), so ending the movie with a small hobbit battle would not work. If the movies really held true to the works of Tolkien, they would have added it in, but it would not make much sense to mass audiences in the context of PJ's movies.
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