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Damn, Brian, I wish I could've been there. I don't blame you for feeling the jtiters.The explanation for why Tollers didn't do much description of battles makes perfect sense. Most people of Tolkien's own generation were veterans too. Nowadays, the horror and terror of warfare is not really understood by the general public.Regarding the Scouring: I understand the decision to remove the Scouring, even if I don't agree with it. It's the fact that the Shire is completely untouched by the ravages of the War that bothers me. After all that, the fat, lazy little Hobbits of the Shire were completely unaffected and unphased by the titanic struggles of the land. It really bothered me that they didn't do something, anything, to rectify that.If I were doing it, I would've had the Hobbits return home to find the Shire in ruins. Injured Hobbits, burned Hobbit holes, wreckage everywhere. Obviously, the Shire was affected by the war. Over time, the Fellowship Four help rebuild the Shire, until it's back to its old self. It wouldn't take substantially more screentime than what we got in the film, and it would at least grazingly suggest that the Scouring could've happened, but just wasn't shown.It's one of the reasons I really feel LotR deserved a miniseries.Bombadil as a land wight, eh? Why the hell not.
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Diana
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