ABC said:

Now about LoTR, they just wanted your eyes full of FX. Please everyone take a minute and wonder why they didn't make the end of the story (the return in the country) with the concrete buildings ect... Looks too much as where you live ?

What I think: It would have been the more powerful contrast for a "fantasy" film and more, the audience would have certainly identificated how we - humans - are turning miserable with our sense of restrictions etc... It is to me the heart of the book. Such a message is 1000 times far powerful and somehow awakening than any fashionable so called "ecological" attitude.

Are you referring to the Scouring of the Shire? That would have added 20 minutes easily (and more like 40 to do it anything resembling justice) to a movie that already went on 20 minutes past the defeat of the main antagonist.