[The Saucepan Man]

This actually quite upsets me.<P>I can understand why they do not want to make too much of Saruman, given that he will not feature much in the final film. But he has been a big part of the first two. Some resolution of his role would, to my mind, have been in order. And Wormtongue, too, although less so. Non-Book viewers will be left wondering what happened to that guy who was the major villain in the last two films.<P>I would have thought that "the Voice of Saruman" could be dealt with fairly briefly at the beginning of the film. And it does leave whatever device they may use for getting the Palantir into Gandalf's (and Pippin's) hands fairly weak (particularly if they are going to work these scenes back into the Extended Version).<P>Saruman is a big part of the trilogy (of films) and he should be given a suitable send-off. I can understand the omission of the Scouring, so this is the first big disappointment of RotK for me. But, I suppose it's best to get the disappointment out of the way before taking my seat in the cinema.