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Oh wow..that last part about sam and getting married as calmed all my fears. My little sister said she heard there was no "raising of the shire" which would just totally ruin EVERYTHING but I have ...

there's no scouring of the shire at all, it was never even filmed. chances are that it won't even be in the extended edition. pj didn't "like that part of the book". altho, saruman being remove...

Sigh. So I guess he's removed all trace of the underlying theme of the books, huh.

which the good vs evil thing? or the tale of hobbits? either way, i think i'll be happy with pj's conclusion to the films. the writing has been excellent (if you can look at it purely from the s...

There is a major undercurrent in the books that is essentially Tolkein's lament over what happened to Europe, and the English countryside in particular during the two world wars of the last century...