Man, I sure didn't expect Frodo to ... **POSSIBLE SPOILERS**

[DanL]

Originally Posted by Blacknight

Overall good
didn't exactly follow the book but hey none of em' did.
Did a good job but i still would've liked to c all the hobbits enslaved...
oh well hopefully they made it and will stick it on the extended dvd thingie
but i give it an A+

Don't get your hopes up about it. Jackson hated that part of the book, so he cut it out completely. I agree with his choice - It's such anticlimactic ending. I mean, here they are, they destroy the ring and save the world, and you're telling me they come back to more <insert explicative here>? Once you reach the climax, you can't go back to another adventure and expect the audience to enjoy it.

Non-idealistically now, people complained about the length of the ending as is.... if this part was included, it would increase the length of the ending by atleast another half hour. You'd have people walking out or turning it off if that happened.

[Yan Wang]

The choice to cut out Saruman and the scouring of the shire was warranted. I thought it was a good choice. But because of that, I'd have expected more battle scenes and less ending!

Great movie, but I could've done with more and longer visuals... The final battle at the black gate was also a little weak. I was expecting that to be pretty huge too. Legolas' battle with the one oliphaunt was very cool, but I get frustrated when he says blatantly obvious lines [in all the movies] and then just stops there. Gimli amuses me much more.

My favorite event: Gandalf smacking down Denethor with his staff.

I wonder... if they toned dow the rendering quality and resolution a bit so that it could be rendered in real-time, what would WETA charge for people to play 'Battle of Minas Tirith'?