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Tiffanys:
Me, personally...

Frodo throws the ring into volcano.
"We've finally done it sam!"
Ring hits lava, Sauron's finger comes through the ring and he flies up out of the fire on a dragon-thingy.

He then goes on to laugh at them hysterically and make fun of them for actually believing that. Or something like that. ^_^

What can I say? I liked Sauron.

Here's another example, but not mine: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yqVD0swvWU

DLTE:
With aragon going bad. Going to the dark side and shit

Goroshi-sama:
right in final minutes, it would read: "THE GAME!"

Pzc:
Pretty much like this ;)

datora:
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The movie version or the original Tolkien?

From a serious viewpoint, Tolkien's work is so utterly masterful that I would not dare attempt to "improve" it.  Really, he was a literary genius, so studied in folklore and mythology and culture that more than 90% of everybody only have a shallow grasp of his works.

From a "silly" viewpoint, I suppose that Shelob would have been successful and that Golum claims the Ring from Frodo's dried husk and becomes the Dark Lord, throwing down Sauron and turning Mordor into his party crib.


There are a number of untold stories that took place after the fall of Sauron.  It would have been cool for another in-depth visit with Tom Bombadil, something that explored more of his history and a take on Tom's continued existence as the Fourth Age dawned.  Elrond and Gandalf visiting him and kicking back a few pipes filled with weed and just chatting about what was and what what will never be.

I would have loved a chapter or three about the Ents in an epic search for (and finding) the lost Entwives, passing through the Shire and visiting with Merry & Pippin, and perhaps even Tom Bombadil.  In fact, Elrond, Gandalf and Treebeard all sitting around with Tom (and a few others) could have been one of the most fascinating chapters possible to help wrap the story and tie a lot of loose ends together.

Since the elves abandoned Middle Earth, an unusually adventurous group of Hobbits might have moved to Lothlórien and colonized it under the watchful eye of Galadriel as she and her people prepared to leave.  This would have tied in nicely with the dwarves recolonizing Khazad-dûm, and the discovery/colonization of the caverns of Helm's Deep.

I could list a dozen more examples, but perhaps the final one I would have dearly loved would have been the salvation of Arwen.

It seemed a needless tragedy for her to have to choose between a mortal life and being with her people.  Given the magic of the lands and the very powerful people in them, I didn't really see the need for her to die.  For example, if Elrond, Galadriel and Gandalf all gave their Elven Rings to her before they departed, the final, fading power in them might have sustained her.  As a Bearer of those Rings, she would have also had the right.

As an immortal, she could well have lived a long and happy life with Aragorn, raised a half dozen children to carry on the bloodline of the White Tree, and still one last boat could have waited to take her to the Grey Havens.  The seventy-some years or so she lived as Aragorn's queen are less than the tick of a clock in the ages of the earth and the lifespan of an elf, and it always seemed a false time-constraint to me.

Even Legolas and Gimli built their own boat and sailed into the Grey Havens in the end.  Why didn't they go to Gondor and stay with Aragorn toward the end of his life, then take Arwen with them ..?  To know that she somehow lived and was reunited with her father (even if she died a mortal death some years afterward) ... that would have been some small justice to balance against the incredible sacrifices she made, and those of all the people around her.

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