[ClearCase_guy]

Although it didn't make it into the movies, at the end of the Lord of The Rings, when the hobbits return to the Shire, they find that it has been taken over by ruffians. As one of the local explains, "It started with a lot of Gathering and Sharing, but there seemed to be a lot of Gathering, and not much Sharing."

The chapter called "The Scouring of the Shire" details how a small number of committed patriots rouse the populace and throw the ruffians out.

Messing with guns, and messing with the food supply will be risky activities for the Elitists. That's the sort of behavior that gets people's attention.

[MrB]

Everyone should be HYPER-sensitive of any effort to restrict access to the means to resist tyranny.

When the British attempted to seize the arsenal,
that was when the colonists decided “IT’S ON!”

[allmendream]

I read that in a “Post Harry Potter movie model” the Lord of the Rings would have been made into four movies - with the “Scouring of the Shire” being the fourth movie. As it was they should have ended “Return” with the coronation and wedding - everything after that (in the movie) was just going through the motions and anticlimactic.