[artios]

Vast Buffalo Wing Conspiracy -

How do you know he won't include the scouring of the Shire - to me that is one of the best parts. That would be a disappointment indeed - please... say it ain't so! WHat info do you have on it??!!

[The Iguana]

artiois,

Jackson has said on several occasions that all of that would be cut from the movie - the theatrical release, at any rate.

[Vast Buffalo Wing Conspiracy]

1) Peter Jackson said so. It would add too much time for what is already going to be a very tight cut for ROTK, and it creates two ending climaxes instead of one; ie, you destroy the ring, months pass, you eventually wind up back in Bree and then the Shire, and then you finally have your second ending with The Scouring, then you finally end with Bilbo going to the Gray Havens. Very bumpy and anticlimatic, and far, far too long.

2) Peter Jackson said that the scenes of The Shire, which Frodo sees in Galadriel's Mirror, showing what would happen if Frodo should fail, were intended as an homage to The Scouring of the Shire, since Peter Jackson would not be including it in the film. Hence, you sort of have already seen The Scouring of the Shire, in Galadriel's mirror.