[HCIsland]

No one has said all the Isengard scenes are gone.<P>They still will go to Isengard to check on Saruman and find Merry and Pippin there. What happens next is anyone's guess. It has been suggested that they simply find Saruman's body and the palantir in the rubble and will let the audience make their own conclusions, but obviously this is guess work.<P>Somehow, Merry and Pippin will be reunited with Gandalf, Aragorn and company and the palantir will end up in their hands. That's pretty much fact, so after that point the film can progress as normal.<P>How well this all works really cannot be judged until we've seen the film.<P>H.C.