[The Saucepan Man]

Scenes involving the Houses of Healing and the Eowyn/Faramir romance were filmed, so I'll be surprised if they are not in the EE. I remember reading an interview with Miranda Otto prior to the release of RotK where she sounded slightly miffed that the romance scenes were cut.<P>I agree mostly with what's been said. I don't have a problem with scenes from the book being left out when they are unnecessary for the purposes of the story being told in the films (such as Tom Bombadil). <P>For me, the problem here lies in the fact that it leaves the "film story" incomplete. Audiences are left wondering what happened to these fairly major characters, and simply showing them at the end smiling at each other isn't enough to make up for that. It's likely that many people missed it and, even if not, it doesn't tell us how and why they got to that point, bearing in mind where we left them.<P>So I agree that this is something that Jackson and co should have made time for in the theatrical release.