Ellewen, surprisingly enough, I don't think Tolkien would be too upset over the cutting of scenes. As Tolkien states that he understands time constraints and things have to be contracted if you are making a movie from a book:
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Contraction of this kind is not the same thing as the necessary reduction or selection of the scenes and events that are to be visually represented.
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So, it's not the cutting of scenes that upsets him the most, it's the altering and changing around his ideas (which Jackson did a lot of). Tolkien would rather prefer the Ents being cut out of the movies, than have them being changed from the books:
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If both the Ents and the Hornburg cannot be treated at sufficient length to make sense, then one should go.
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