Surprisingly enough, I rewatched all the extended versions of these movies this week. The first two times I watched them I thought they were great. This time, however, all I could think while sitting there was, that Peter Jackson and his wife are really shitty screenwriters. Take, for example, the missing scourging of the shire. Apparently this wasn't in the movie because Jackson didn't like it in the book. So apparently, he thinks he could write a better ending than Tolkien. If they ever film The Hobbit they should really let someone else do the script.