Jackson got it right on the Scouring

[Black Breathalizer]

As much as I like the Scouring of the Shire, Peter Jackson is right to exclude it from the Return of the King. The trilogy is about the destruction of the ring. The Scouring, although great, was terribly anticlimatic. I think it would have been better for Tolkien to give the reclaiming of the Shire its own separate focus in the Appendix (like the story of Arwen and Aragorn) and end the book the Jackson will end his movie trilogy.

The brilliant thing about Jackson's move is that he can always bring the actors back sometime in the future and film the Scouring of the Shire as a special extra on a future LOTR DVD. He could do the same thing with Tom Bombadil and the barrow wights.