Originally Posted by blatantninja
I was ok with them leaving out the scouring, because you really couldn't include it in a theatrical release without cutting something somewhere else (and RotK was pretty long for a theater),

But that´s a bit circular logic - "because they´ve made the film this way, it wouldn´t make sense" - well, they could do the film differently in the first place.
The major battles in TTT and RotK both took way too much screen time, cut some of that and you get the space for Scouring easily .