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<blockquote data-quote="EzekielRaiden" data-source="post: 9735966" data-attributes="member: 6790260">See above, but my response is essentially, &quot;Will they?&quot; With Aragorn, Gandalf, Frodo, etc. all dead, it seems that the War of the Ring becomes a conclusive victory for either Sauron or Saruman, if the latter is in fact capable of wielding the Ring properly. (I'm personally skeptical of this and think the Ring would use him to get back to Sauron. Gandalf, on the other hand, I think really could wield the Ring better than Sauron himself.) Aragorn, especially by the start of the third book, is simply too important to be lost. The narrative has built him up to the point where losing him genuinely trashes the whole thing, and we get a downer ending where evil wins--or we get a fourth book showing a complacent Dark Lord taken down by a different group, at which point it's now a different campaign, one set in Fantasy Dystopia rather than Fantasy Post-Post Apocalypse.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="EzekielRaiden, post: 9735966, member: 6790260"] See above, but my response is essentially, "Will they?" With Aragorn, Gandalf, Frodo, etc. all dead, it seems that the War of the Ring becomes a conclusive victory for either Sauron or Saruman, if the latter is in fact capable of wielding the Ring properly. (I'm personally skeptical of this and think the Ring would use him to get back to Sauron. [I]Gandalf[/I], on the other hand, I think really could wield the Ring better than Sauron himself.) Aragorn, especially by the start of the third book, is simply [I]too important[/I] to be lost. The narrative has built him up to the point where losing him genuinely trashes the whole thing, and we get a downer ending where evil wins--or we get a [I]fourth[/I] book showing a complacent Dark Lord taken down by a different group, at which point it's now a different campaign, one set in Fantasy Dystopia rather than Fantasy Post-Post Apocalypse. [/QUOTE]

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