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Removing Bombadil and the Barrow Downs seriously detracts from how moving Merry's part in the slaying of the Lord of the Nazgul is --- I'm sorry, tossing a bundle of swords onto a bed is a cheap substitute.
``So passed the sword of the Barrow-downs, work of Westernesse. But glad would he have been to know its fate who wrought it slowly long ago in the North-kingdom when the Dunedain were young, and chief among their foes was the dread realm of Angmar and its sorcerer king. No other blade, not though mightier hands had wielded it, would have dealt that foe a wound so bitter, cleaving the undead flesh, breaking the spell that knit his unseen sinews to his will.''
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