Aragorn vs Sauron - Unreleased scene

Don't like it. While both look good, Sauron wasn't the main threat, the ring was. Also, it looks strange having him so depowered in physical form as to not blow several people away with each swing, like in the opening. Never really cared for the troll replacement either.

I'm so glad this didn't happen. It would have been so detrimental to aura of Sauron.

Very glad that this didn’t make it too the movie

What?! This would have been WAY better!

Wish they kept it. The eye and tower was unfulfilling a bit.

I don't like it... and I don't like the troll either.

Could have been a black numenorean commander or something

Hubiera sido un gran error incluirla. Sauron perdió su forma física al contarle el dedo qué llevaba el anillo.

I respect them wanting to tie Annatar back to Sauron but it was ultimately the correct choice to remove it. Aragorn's last stand at the Black Gates was always about Frodo & Sam.

It's a good thing this didn't make the final cut and they went with the troll instead. Would make no sense

Honestly? These movies are amazing but this would have been better. It's VERY tokin. The number of times they have a hero battle the main bad outside their fortress

Thank God none of y’all are Peter Jackson. This shit is ass, what we got is way better.

It wasn’t technically deleted. Sauron was just replaced/masked over with a troll.

Thank god they left that out!

Don’t like it at all. Changes the written story in a fundamental way.

@TolkienRivendel @JulioLe35301969 epic!!! Inspite of abscense of Sauron I think a second Nazgul would have been better than a troll.

that would have been cool to see Sauron take the field of battle

How can people say they wanted that in the movie? Sauron wasn't supposed to take back his physical form unless he took possession of the ring. That would be a huge plot hole.

A man with an elvish sword vs a fallen angel.

I'm glad this wasn't done it would've down played the entire story

This would’ve confused too many people. They would’ve needed to show his physical body before this point. Also people would have wanted him to be juiced up like in the prologue when he was imbued with power from the ring.

What kind of orc is that?!?!

but how could have Sauron all of a sudden gained a physical body for this fight if he had always been the eye/spirit without the ring

Should’ve kept this

@grok why did they decide to remove this scene?

Woulda been epic 🥲

This is way better than the Final Cut. But I do understand the decision to not go with it. Raises questions as to why Sauron didn’t manifest in physical form before and somewhat overshadows the main story thread - Frodo and the One Ring

This was always the one thing missing for me. Would have loved this.

what really happened in the books? @grok

@MisterMosterO I’m usually up for a good old good guy vs bad guy fight, but I prefer the final version where Sauron does not take form again (I like to think he learned his lesson from last time).

Sauron would eviscerate Aragorn

@narsilmcm

I just watched Peter Jackson talk about this. He said they didn't want to take the story away from Frodo and have Aragorn be the hero.

Glad they binned it