James’ Tolkien analogy is crap. If anything, we’re at the chapter (which was unfortunately left out of the movies), “The Cleansing of the Shire.”
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And, yes, a brain fart led me to call it the “cleansing” of the Shire instead of the correct “The Scouring of the Shire.”


Oh, well. @StephenAtHome would be ashamed of me, particularly given how big a Tolkien fan I’ve been for well over 40 years.
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I was so bummed it wasn’t in the movie.
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As was I. Leaving Tom Bombadil out, I understood. That chapter would have been *very* difficult to adapt without its looking ridiculous, and it wasn't absolutely essential to the story. The scouring of the Shire, though? I was disappointed.
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I can sort of understand leaving the Scouring out in that LotR had one of the longest denouements of any story I've ever read, and in a movie it might have seemed odd to have another battle after the climax at Mt. Doom. Even so, I would have loved to have seen it.
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