Be careful what you wish for...

[Farael]

Originally Posted by Hookbill the Goomba

I wish that Helm's Deep had not had a hole blown in it.

Granted!! although what most people are not aware of is that Saruman blew that hole at the request of Gandalf (who had ridden like crazy all night to ask him this) for Helm's Deep had been hermetically closed and it had been slowly filling up with inert gases until the pressure was so high it would have crushed a grown up dwarf. This is why, when the wall was slightly breached (as was the original plan) the escaping gas suddenly ignited and blew half the wall off.

I wish Aragorn had been one of the Istari

[Formendacil]

Originally Posted by Farael

I wish Aragorn had been one of the Istari

Foolish, foolish Farael!

For Aragorn to be an Istari, that means that his REAL father was not Arathorn- but Gandalf! Which explains the closeness of the two, to be sure, but this has drastic consequences, for Aragorn no longer has a claim to any thrones, nor does he have the Sword-that-was-broken, or the "Hands of the King that are the Hands of a Healer".

The story goes as normal, but no King means that Faramir, Eowyn, and Merry die. Gandalf, not Aragorn, looks into the Palantir, and the battle at the Black Gate is a massacre. After the inevitable destruction of the Ring, Gondor is in shambles, its remnants ruled by the House of Dol Amroth. Rohan has lost half it's men, and there is no king to reunite the Realms.

Aragorn, being half-Maia, goes with Arwen to Valinor, and is still there with her today.

I wish that Merry and Pippin were actually one character...

[The Elf-warrior]

I wish that Merry and Pippin were actually one character...

Your wish is granted and this composite character had two personalities, Pippin and Merry. Instead of Merry Glorfindel was a member of the Fellowship of the Ring. So instead of the Three Hunters it was the Four Hunters. Also Glorfindel won the Orc killing contest with 45. But Faramir was burned to death because Meregrin (Actually named Peregrin) went with the Rohirrim (Pippin thought better of looking in the Palantir and put it back.) Eowyn ended up marrying the Prince of Dol Amroth.

I wish Gollum was the Phantom of the Opera.

[Hookbill the Goomba]

Originally Posted by The Elf-warrior

I wish Gollum was the Phantom of the Opera.

Granted. Yet strangely, there appears to be no effect on him. Save, perhaps, a strange craving for a Church Organ.

I wish Grond's head was a big thumbs up instead of a wolf

[Kitanna]

Originally Posted by Hookbill the Goomba

I wish Grond's head was a big thumbs up instead of a wolf

And thus it was, Grond is now a thumb's up! And everyone in Gondor is caught off guard, how's that for the element of surprise?


I wish dwarves danced the can-can.

[Rune Son of Bjarne]

Originally Posted by Kitanna

I wish dwarves danced the can-can.

Can-can was now a thing all dwarves learned at the age of 5, temples was build to honor the can-can god and special can-can soldiers was trained. The Valar found that this was very silly and killed off all the dwarves.


I wish that all Hobbits were Ninjas and named Josti

[Farael]

Originally Posted by Rune Son of Bjarne

I wish that all Hobbits were Ninjas and named Josti

Great! now the hobbits are not only ring-resistant, small and sneaky but they are also extremely skillful Ninjas.... but there is one problem. As you wished, they are all called Josti. How could THAT be a problem? well... Josti was the one chosen to carry the ring.... and so Gandalf, who had not seen Josti for the longest time, asked some random hobbit where Josti lived. He went over to find that "Bag-end" (now known as Josti's house) had changed quite a bit.... it certainly had, as it is was not Bag-end but rather some other Josti's house. This Josti turned out to be the odd evil hobbit and gave the ring to Sauron for the modest price of a shipload of weed pipe. The world was covered in a second darkness until the end of the days. Now-a-days that darkness is called "Capitalism" (to honour Rune's seemily communist trends)

I wish Samwise Gamgee had been a Middle-Earth renowned soccer player