I don't know, I think it was a near-as-dammit effort. The scripts certainly drew the story threads together and made them work. Tolkien was a towering fabulist, bless his tweed trousers, but he was a terrible novelist. The way The Return Of The King reaches a natural conclusion then sort of creaks back into action with The Scouring Of The Shire seemed to unblance the whole thing.
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