In the extended edition of "", Wormtongue kills Saruman (stabbing him in the back, not slitting his throat) and is in turn killed by an arrow as in the chapter; however, this takes place at Isengard instead of the Shire and it is Legolas who shoots Wormtongue. Peter Jackson called the chapter anticlimactic, and decided in 1998 not to include it in the film trilogy. He decided to merge Saruman's and Wormtongue's death scene with "The Voice of Saruman" chapter from "The Two Towers", but did not wish to go back to Isengard after the Battle of Helm's Deep. Jackson explained that in post-production of "The Return of the King", the scene felt like a seven minute wrap up of "The Two Towers", gave the film an unsteady beginning, and made the film too long, so it ended up in the extended DVD.