[Lalaith]

These ideas are interesting, and might redress a complaint I have heard from many, many non-Tolkienites, both friends and film reviewers, that while the film is excellent as a whole, it is let down by the post-Mount Doom part is dull and drags on. <BR>Now, this is not *my* complaint personally, (although I did find the Grey Havens a mite drawn-out and soppy)but this could be because I had the book in my mind the whole time. And the end chapters do not feel in the least superfluous in the book. <BR>I initially thought PJ's reason for leaving out the Scouring was valid, but maybe his stripping-down of the final chapters is the reason so many people feel bored by them - to have the homecoming resulting in nothing but a few glances in the pub, wooing of Rosie and Frodo clutching his chest, feels a little flat. <BR>I think these ideas you've come up with would improve this feeling of 'flatness'.