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| | Peter Jackson's The Return of the King - Tolkien Gateway |
 | | Gandalf, Aragorn, Legolas, Gimli and Théoden, the victors of the Battle of the Hornburg, there confront the traitorous wizard, Saruman. |
 | | A sequence that did not make it from the book into the film at all despite the hopes of many fans, was the "Scouring of the Shire", in which the Hobbits return home at the end of their quest to find they have some fighting to do, owing to Saruman's takeover of the Shire. |
 | | Jackson felt that it would tax the audience's patience to mount another battle scene after the critical conflict, the defeat of Sauron, had already been resolved. |
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