The Lord of the Rings movies still work, without the Scouring. The Return of the King already has four or five different endings, why on Middle-earth would you want another one? And it’s true that it would take an enormous restructuring of Jackson’s Return of the King - and probably The Two Towers as well - to fit the Scouring into the film trilogy. It’s essentially another adventure into itself, a repetition in micro of the last several hundred pages we spent reading.Īnd speaking from experience, when you advocate for its inclusion to a movie viewer, you sound like you have fully lost your mind. It complicates the themes of The Lord of the Rings, interrupting the flow of the happy homecoming we feel our heroes deserve. And while fans will argue Tom Bombadil should be included because he’s fun, even if he doesn’t really have an impact on the story, the Scouring of the Shire is the opposite. This is Polygon's Year of the Ring.įilling two entire chapters of The Return of the King, the Scouring of the Shire is one of the largest omissions Philippa Boyens, Peter Jackson, and Fran Walsh made from J.R.R.
So each Wednesday throughout the year, we'll go there and back again, examining how and why the films have endured as modern classics. 2021 marks The Lord of the Rings movies' 20th anniversary, and we couldn't imagine exploring the trilogy in just one story.
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