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nah Fran Walsh & Jackson’s take is superior to Tolkien. The hobbits can never return to the Shire they knew, not because the Shire is different, but because their journey has caused them to be irrevocably changed. “No Man crosses the Same River twice; For it is a Different Man, and a Different River”

the Scouring of the Shire is lame as hell & I’m pretty sure Tolkien only put it in because he was trying to reference the Harrowing of the North.