Anticipated Additional Scenes - ROTK / EE

[Valandil]

Originally posted by Fimbrethil
Off subject but, how would they kill Sauromon and Grima if there is no Scouring of the Shire? If the 5 hour thing is true then I would expect Ghan-buri-ghan to be in it because to explain or show that whole story there I'd say a good 30 min. are needed. It wouldn't suprise me if they did make the EE more important...simply because this was different from other movies so why not have everyhitng different? Why exactly was Merry at the Black Gates? He was supposed to be hurt. Wasn't Pip supposed to be hurt to? I really need to reread the books.

I believe they had a sequence where the two of them died at Orthanc (while Gandalf & Co were visiting)... so it accomplished the task of killing those two villains without adding another segment to the story at the end. (EDIT: and it was GOING to be in the theatrical of RotK, but got cut out to help keep the time to 3:21)

Maybe they'll just have Merry be tough enough to recover in time to march with the army. Pippin was at the Black Gate in the books - I don't believe he had been hurt up to that time.

I wonder if the EE will ALSO include any of Denethor's use of the Palantir at Minas Tirith...