I think the skipping over of the Scouring of the Shire is indicitive of both TTT and ROTK. To me, it seemed like those movies were less faithful to the Tolkien themes as they degenerated into wasting time between epic battle scenes. I was bored of the battles by the end of ROTK (as well as annoyed with Sam's crying).<P>In FOTR:EE, mirror in Lothlorien shows the Shire being burned and Hobbits being enslaved, and Sam's gift from Galadrial is the box of magic elvish dirt (for lack of a better term). Yet this foreshadowing is abandoned in ROTK when the hobbits return to a miraculously unchanged Shire. I guess the Shire wasn't in danger after all. I wouldn't go as far as saying "that ruined the movie for me", but IMO it was definitely the biggest oversight.
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