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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jester47" data-source="post: 2781974" data-attributes="member: 2238">We know that the Lord of the Rings was intended as a sequel to the Hobbit.  But while LotR requires the events of the Hobbit, the Hobbit does not require the sequal of LotR.  And for that I am glad.  In a way they could be two stories from two different worlds.  I like the LotR.  But I kind of wish he had kept it consistant with the Hobbit.  I would have liked to have seen the following happen: (and if I get really prideful, I might do it as a Fan Fic, yeah, right)The dark lord sauron does want the ring, but he did not make it.  And it does need to be destroyed.   Sauron is the necromancer of Mirkwood.  But thats where the similarities in my mind stop.  The necromancer, after getting chased out of the wood heads over the misty mountains, began collecting the rings of power.  He created servants, the ring wraiths to help him collect the rings.  Originally he started with nine made from heroes that he had captured or from kings he had apprenticed in sorcerous arts only with the intent to enslave them.  I would have increased the number of total rings of power to twenty five to include 5 rings for the handling of magic beyond the racial rings.  I would still have saruman dominated, and there would still be the need to destroy the master ring, but the story would be about safegaurding the remianing rings and then finding the forge where "the very smart and very ancient yet very mortal being" forged the ring so the magic could be unmade.  The rings would have been made by someone who dominated the world through their use.  His family became the line of kings handing down the ring from generation to generation.  Some were good and used the rings for right, others were evil and would enslave the world with them.  The rings could be taken off but the bearer would loose the power and control over his people putting those who did so at a disadvantage to the overkings.  When the main ring was lost the kingdom fell apart and some of the other rings were lost over thousands of years.  The necromancer having found the secrets to long life had been seeking out these rings for some time.  Aragorn would be of the line of the ring kings but would understand that it needed to be destroyed and that the world would be better off free.  The plot would revolve around all this.  Kind of silly.Still what he wrote was much better than anything I could put out.  There is a cohesiveness and lesson in the LotR that I could never acheive.  But the rift between the hobbit and the LotR will always bug me.  I prefer them as completely separate stories.</blockquote>

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