Using Shelob, and choice of cliffhangers

[Folwren]

Eomer, you are awesome!!

I always thought the same thing...Shelob should defintely have gone in the TT. Before the movie came out, I always pictured the end to myself. It would have been a perfect cliff hanger.

You have this huge monster come out and apparently kill Frodo and then the orcs get him and Sam learns that he's alive, and the audience then does, too. At the end of the book, not only does the enemy have Frodo, but Sam is lying senseless right in front of an orc gate!!! Can you imagine how awesome they could have made that? With Howard Shores music...little Sam lying on the ground in front of a huge iron gate...it could have been awesome, sad, and extremely cliffhanging.

Anyhow, I don't have any more time to dramatize what I wish could have happened. Excellent point, Eomer, and I agree entirely with you.