They had better not cut the Scouring of the Shire!

Well where would they end it? Aragorn's coronation, like the big celebration at the end of Star Wars movies?

That's the most likely spot, yes.

Well speaking of the coronation, I think they should merge it with the wedding to Arwen so there aren't two big celebrations

could make sense. THEY HAD BETTER NOT cut out the last few chapters!!!

I agree, bmilder. Actually, it probably wouldn't even hurt if the celebration at the Field of Cormallen were moved back to Gondor and merged with the coronation and the wedding. As I recall, there is nothing about the scene that makes it critical to be a field celebration.
I really think that it will hurt the movie if the Scouring is cut out, though. It ties up the remaining loose ends of the story and sets the stage for the finale.

I saw a rumour today, which, if it turns out to be true, would indicate that The Scouring of the Shire is out. I saw on a mailing list that apparently Arwen kills Grima. Now, Arwen is already Queen and living in Minas Tirith by the time Grima dies in the book. Nowhere near the Shire to be around to finish Wormtongue off. I hope it's just a rumour...

Amen to that Eruve! Jeez, if there will be that much alteration in the final cut of the movies, I can hear the howls of the outraged fans now. In fact, I will probably be one of them. I hope that one does turn out to be rumor. Otherwise, it is just stupid!

That's the wrost rumor I've hear yet!!! It's a bad Arwen rumor and a bad Scouring fo the Shire rumor all mixed into one!!!

ditto!

Ugh. I don't want to think about that.

Since Tater brought this up again in the other thread about what we all want to see the most... I thought I might bring this back up to the top.

Things appear to be looking better... somewhere there were some pictures from the Shire sets, and the captions mentioned something about it appearing in both the first and third movies. Don't remember where I saw this though. We should probably still ask PJ through the official site for confirmation though... I'd really like to lay this to rest in a comfortable manner.

cross fingers

Oh no.

That wheel pic is bad, bad news.

What Wheel pic?

This wheel pic.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/inl/common/im...50,6150,FF.jpg

Yeah, guess I should have read the other thread first! hehe. Thanks.

Hey, I was thinking about this whole issue again the other day... I was wondering if anyone had any new information pertaining to it? I haven't really been following the reports.

You talking about the wizard and the wheel or the scouring of the shire?

Heres a link to some of the rumours that are going around it contains all the changes that will be made in the movie and i believe it talks about the scouring of the shire and some stuff on the deaths of grima and sauruman somewhere in there, but a brief warning it contains "MASSIVE SPOILERS" so EVEN if they are mostly rumours if you do dont your couage man go no further for dissapointment awaits with big sharp nasty pointy teeth!

Changes in the Movie

Ah, cripes, they are cutting it!

Oh well. Thanks for pointing me out to that page - I'd rather be disappointed now than later, because by then I'll be used to the idea.