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I used to think that the chapter "The Scouring of the Shire" referred to the ransacking of it by Sharkey and his ruffians and minions. However, thinking more about the chapter, and particularly its absence from the Jackson movie, caused me to realise that scouring really referred to the cleansing that Frodo and the Hobbits had to do to rid the Shire of Sharkey's influence.
Not often that an omission by Jackson could lead to correcting a misconception of the book.
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I’ll sing his roots off. I’ll sing a wind up and blow leaf and branch away.
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