the return of the king
 

so i was watching it on tv...wtf is with the end. i dont remember that being in the book. where does frodo go at the end and why?

Read the book again. spank:

hake:

Prob. they wanted a more epic end to the saga. oOo:

[quote="Mr.Buttocks":d8baa]Read the book again. spank:[/quote:d8baa]

happy: indeed. did you blank out in those last couple of pages.

[quote="@/\/G3L":5bf0f][quote="Mr.Buttocks":5bf0f]Read the book again. spank:[/quote:5bf0f]

happy: indeed. did you blank out in those last couple of pages.[/quote:5bf0f]

Yup, the ending it pretty much the same.

Wasnt there supposed to be the scourging of the shire?

[quote="Bean 2":f103d]Wasnt there supposed to be the scourging of the shire?[/quote:f103d]

left that part out

extended edition.

Well there is books out now that tell the whole entire story of about the shire and middle earth...it also talks about the other land that frodo goes to...where noone dies in a harmful way....it tells so many things...i will post it when i can find it...

You're probably talking about the Silmarillion. It has been "out" for several decades, considering Tolkien has been dead for decades and his family won't whore out the license to the franchise a la George Lucas.

Anyway, the ending is pretty much what's in the book, albeit condensed. The Scouring of the Shire was left out.. Peter Jackson didn't like it, so he says. I think it was more of a budget issue. What the movie doesn't let on is that after Saruman and Wormtongue are left for dead in the tower, they go to the Shire with some orcs and enslave the hobbits. When Frodo and the other hobbits return, they lead the hobbits against the Saruman & Co. It could've been a really awesome scene. They began filming it originally and never completed it. If you want a snapshot of the actual taking of the Shire, watch The Fellowship and pay close attention to what Frodo sees in the water with Galadriel.

Oh, and Frodo goes to the same place the Elves go "in the West." I can't remember the name of it off the top of my head.. the Undying Lands maybe. All the ringbearers have to go there. Sam also eventually joins Frodo there as Frodo comes back for him. Anyone who once bore a ring has to go because the magic of the lands diminish, etc.

The sad part is I've never read the books.. got a friend who knows it all...

i only read "the Hobbit", PJ should make a movie out of that book, bilbo > frodo...

you dimple dick, IF you dont know, middle earth is an island contenent(sp?) and it is surrounded by other land, that is where the elves came from and that is also where they are returning to, and that is why frodo is going with them. DUH. spank:

If you dont know the end of the books, youve gotta be a dimple dick.. oOo: and its "Continent"

Yeah, there was the Shire thing..good part.

The end of the movie took FOREVER. And I had to go to the bathroom like crazy..I had to go ever since Sam started singing to King rgireighjoieroi and I held it in the entire time, swearing I would of just gone in my popcorn bucket if I really needed to. And the movie would NEVER END. First they sail away on the boat...WAIT, WAIT! then you gotta see Aragorn be turned into a King...WAIT, WAIT! Now you gotta see Frodo coming home..now its the end...WAIT, WAIT! Now Sam has to smile proudly by his huge-boob'd wife, and coupla kids. Man, I sprinted out of that damned theater before anyone else did, nearly going in the hallways.

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ROFL, that kid has a HOOOGE noggin.

roflmao

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at yourself?... lol...

[quote="[DAS REICH] Blitz":49640]ROFL, that kid has a HOOOGE noggin.[/quote:49640]

You can just imagine it exploded the same time he tears that banana apart..man, that gave me such a good laugh.

They sail away to the Grey Havens or the Undying Lands where all immortal beings live after the age of men begins.

Basically it's where the elves and wizards go to live forever, because Frodo was the ring bearer, the burden was too much for him and thus he was invited to the grey havens along with the rest of the fellowship.

The grey havens do not make you immortal, so Frodo and Gimli and whoever else made it there did die after a while, but they all died in peace surrounded by their friends.

I've never finished the books, so I'm reciting what other people have told me.

Yep, it's fairly close to the books ending..... EXCEPT FOR THE GHEY SLOW-MO CRYIN' "I'll always remember you" STUFF!! I think that was at least an hour of the films running time...

For more history on the LOTR trilogy read:

The Silmarillion
Unfinished Tales: The Lost Lore of Middle-earth

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The Silmarillion
Unfinished Tales: The Lost Lore of Middle-earth[/quote:ce46f]

I read that. Did you finish it? The most boring book I have EVER read. I read the Hobbit, and all 3 LOTR's and loved them, but the Silmarillion was mind-numbingly boring, as it seemed like it was a bible, where Tolkien replaced words like "God" with "Neravar".

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