Ending of LOTR: ROTK (unmarked spoilers)

I want to know what everyone's impression of the ending of the end of Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King.

Did anyone else get any weird impressions when you saw them sail off to the "Undying Lands" from Grey Havens?

I had a thought that they were sailing off in a form of euthanasia...

Based upon the facts that:

1. Gandalf was sent back from death until his task was complete. That gives the impression that he must return.

2. The Elves were leaving Middle Earth forever when they left.

3. In none of the Appendices that I've skimmed, I've never heard any mention of any of them again after leaving for the Undying Lands.

Feel free to add your own opinions.

The Elves are returning to the Grey Havens, where they originally came from. They're just going home now to stay.

The time of the ring bearers in Middle Earth has ended. They're moving on.

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They didnt show Theoden's funerla in the movie =(

Didnt like end so much.........was expecting more

The ending just keptdragging on and on and on and on....and it makes it seem like frodo is gay.....(or however the fuck yous pell his name)

They dragged it out long enough that they could've put in the real ending (shire is all fucked up when they come back)

We don't need to see Sam getting married...

no we dotn, but what is this about the shire getting wasted? Explain!!! You have perplexed me -.-

Or, you could read the book, and find out much more than just that for yourself :-/.

Everybody complains about the ending being drug on, but if it was shorter everybody would complain about it being pathetic and not explaining stuff. And I bet my testicles that in the extended version the ending is spiced up somehow.

The Elves are returning to the Grey Havens, where they originally came from. They're just going home now to stay.

Actually, they departed from the Grey Havens. Believe me, I spent a while researching that.

Edit: Grey Havens are just a little West-Northwest from The Shire.

no we dotn, but what is this about the shire getting wasted? Explain!!! You have perplexed me -.-

In the book the shire is being exploited and ravaged by a gang of hoodlums who answer to an old man named "Sharkey". Turns out that this is actually Saruman and after a brief rebellion Saruman is exiled but Wormtongue kills him for kicking him around once too often, then Wormtongue is shot by the hobbits as he tries to run away.

You really should read the books. As much as I loved the movies the books go into so much more detail.

Yea that's the thing about movies, u can't have as much detail and everything because no one wants to watch a week long movie. So they just put in more basic important info and wait for the special extended edition, could u imagin a 4 1/2 hour movie????

ok if any of you read the books this is what was supposed to be in movie 3 (and perpahs is if they ever present us with extended version)

Book 3-all about aragon, hobbits are a sidekick.
Gollum ripps off Frodo's arm and because he is seriously hurt he has to go with elves (people don't die there cause it is the land of gods)
The shire is burnt and conquered by the white wizard (dissapeared in middle of movie wtf?!)
Gandalf the gay never uses his magic in all 3 movies ? WTF WTF WTF?
The stupid spider stings someone else, Sam mistakens the cocun to be frodo. (if you follow the flow technically his armor was inpenetrable, then wtf the moie is BS?)
aragons girl dissapears and appears in the lst 3 minutes of the movie.
the eye is invisible and doesn;t actually shine his ray of ligt on anyone
the relationship between sam and frodo is as follows: frodo is a wise hobbit, sam is the brave one.. in the movie their relationship is pushed to the gay(as of homosexual) point where a clear description is (aaaaaaaah oooooooohhhhhh uuuuuuuuhhhhhhhh......ohhhh Saaaaam!) and what's with teh looks? omg
last but not least the movie is supposed to be much longer and god strikes with vengence those who omitted the rest of the story.. if they did.
if you ask me movie 1 is the best (and follows the book); gollums flashback should have been in movie 1 or beginning of movie 2-would make more sence. the LOTR is about ARAGON, not about hobbits. Gandalf the gay is an embaracement to the wizards (but in book he is Kewl) if i skipped something then sorry. I grew up on the books that is why i am pissed at the movie producers/directors and Elija woods is gayest gay in the history of hobbits

Actually, the Book states that Gollum DID bite off Frodo's finger.

Also, it does state that Shelob stings Frodo, and it also states that Sam interrupts Shelob's cocooning him. After Sam gets rid of Shelob, Frodo is carried off by the Orcs to the Tower of Cirith Ungol.

If you're going to get all angry about something, plz know what you are talking about.

Yeah, you're a fucktard dude, you can't compare the movies and books like some sort of ass clown. If you are so imaginative and know everything, then why would you want the movies to be a direct incarnation of the books that you have already read!?!? A movie and a book are two different experiences, and by melding the two and comparing them in some sick distorted way, you have only made any sort of argument that you make entirely VOID. Kthx get a life bye.

And also, Gandalf did use magic in the movies. First time was to destroy part of the bridge to stop the Balrog, second time was to smack Saruman from a very big distance, and finally when the Nazghoul were after the soldiers of Minas Tirith, he used a magic blinding light to stop them.

I haven't been able to watch Return Of The King yet.I want to watch it so badly though.