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Originally Posted by The Tower
Peter Jackson claimed that the reason the "wizard's battle" was not in Return of the King was because he wanted the film to start fresh instead of being a coda to The Two Towers.
I think the real reason he didn't include it is because they completely rewrote that part of the book and it didn't work out well. The whole "magic" of the scene was completely deleted (the fact that Saruman was the many-colored and was still trying to use his impressive charisma powers to sway the Fellowship) and the Grima backstabbing thing was lame, lame, lame.
I would consider it a let down.
Other new parts were really great. All the extra stuff with Eowyn was fantastic!
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ITA - I am glad he cut the backstabbing thing. It was just silly and anti-climatic to the IMO great exchange between Sauroman - Aragorn, and Theoden
