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Cinematically it makes a lot of sense. There is a major climax at the battle of pelennor fields and then another climax at the black gate/Mt. Doom. They really need to wind it down and close up. If they had to add the scouring of the shire it would be a climax to near the end for this movie. Also it would have added far too much time at the end.
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“I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
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