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[The Saucepan Man]

Originally Posted by Mister Underhill

I don't think it would be impossible to structure the films in a way that includes the Scouring -- though I agree you're right in this case that given some fundamental adaptation choices made by Jackson, it wouldn't have worked in his films.

Possibly, although I find it difficult to imagine a film of LotR where the destruction of the Ring does not provide the main climax and, whatever the adaptation, it is problematic to prolong a film too much beyond its main climax. Certainly, it would have been a very different kind of film and one which, possibly, would not have been commercially viable.