Scouring the Shire

The Lord of the Rings may be one of the most amazing works of fiction the Tolkien ever wrote. Or it may not be. Either way, it's up to you to decide; however, the makers of the movie left out one of the scenes that would have made the movie into the phenomenon that the book was. By leaving out the Scouring of the Shire, they caused the change in the hobbits to go by unnoticed, the extension of Sauron's evil is not fully understood, nor is the extent of Aragorn's power.

In the book, the hobbits swoop into the Shire and save the day. Frodo is seen as the leader. He returns to his home far older than his years. He restrains the hobbits from killing the men who had overrun the village. He also takes part in the fight, not to mention that he is the voice of the hobbits. He makes every demand and is the headman for the hobbits. The rest of the hobbits fight with courage and bravery. They each have a special task to perform and perform it with excellence.

By leaving out this chapter, the movie producers failed to show the extension of evil. Sin is an all encompassing and all corrupting entity. Tolkien wanted to show that even the precious Shire is sussptible to evil. Evil can overcome everyone, no matter how pure you may be. The wickedness of Sauron has tainted all of Middle Earth. The Hobbits of the Shire are no exclusion.

By leaving out this scene, the producers also avoided showing the purging power of the King. Aragorn's power has extended all throughout Middle Earth. The Hobbits are living and breathing representations of the changed lives that the King has enstilled. His arm will eventually begin to reclaim the area surrounding the Shire, and the Hobbits have been marked by him. Aragorn and his power are not going to be stopped, but he is going to purge the evil of Sauron from the world.

The movie people should have left the scene in the movie.