![]() He raises his hands up and black lightning shoots from his fingertips up toward the volcanic opening as he continues to laugh. As he speaks, his body flickers between an image of his own and that of a Dark Galadriel, “In the place of your Dark Lord, you will have a new Dark Lord! Evil, hideous, and terrible as the Morn! Treacherous as the Seas! Stronger than the foundations of the Earth! All shall fear me and despair!!” The flickering stops when he stops talking. The volcano rumbles as his laugh grows louder and louder until he is screaming in maniacal laughter. The Ring begins to glow and Sidious starts to laugh. He slides the Ring onto his middle finger and feels its power fill him. It shrinks down from Sauron’s finger size to Palpatine’s. He picks up the hand and it crumbles away, leaving only the One Ring in his palm. ![]() The anticipation of taking the Ring and putting it on his finger sends evil shivers down his spine. He looks down to where the empty armor lies and sees the severed hand… with the Ring. Darth Sidious, slowly removing his shielding arm from his face, looks to see that Sauron is no more. His glowing body then explodes and his ash is strewn about Mount Doom’s innards as his armor falls empty to the ground. Specks of him start to flutter away as he turns to ash. He screams and his body starts to glow brightly and lose substance. Sauron looks down at his arm and sees that his hand. The severed hand, still clutching the mace, spins in slow motion in the air and comes down to the ground. Flicker… The swing of his lightsaber finds the hand of the Dark Lord. As Sauron brings his black mace down, Sidious swiftly activates his saber and swings at Sauron…reality flickers… Sidious is a man wielding a broken sword, swinging it desperately at Sauron as he reaches down for him. With a wicked yell, Palpatine reaches up his hand and his lightsaber flies quickly into it. As his double vision corrects, the two Saurons slowly converge into one, standing right over him ready to destroy. Dazed for a few seconds, he looks up and sees two Saurons lifting maces above their heads. Momentarily stunned, Sidious doesn’t see Sauron wind up for the mace’s uppercut swing that sends Sidious high into the air, his lightsaber flying back out of his hand. Turning his mace vertical, he blocks the deathblow and jabs Sidious in the face with the butt of his handle. Sliding off of the mace, Sidious spins and side-swings his red blade toward the head of Sauron. Darth Sidious takes advantage and maneuvers for the kill strike. He struggles to hold the mace, his arms wavering now. Gritting his teeth, Palpatine pushes down hard on his weapon, forcing the weakened Sauron to a kneel. His strike comes down on the handle of Sauron’s mace, as the Master of Mordor holds his weapon on either end above his head, holding back the red blade. Darth Sidious comes off of a blocked strike and spins while swinging overhead. The weary warriors show their fatigue as strikes become more lethargic. Weapons clash again, as the two figures of ultimate evil – the two Dark Ones exchange parries for the final time. Sidious speaks, “It ends here, Sauron! I will take the Ring.” Sauron waits, expectantly. Sidious walks slowly toward the black-armored Dark Lord, his lightsaber gently waving back and forth. Battered and limping, Sauron prepares to make a final stand against the Sith Lord. ![]() Sauron is halfway to the ledge when he turns to face his adversary. He is standing on a walkway that comes to a ledge that drops off into the fiery pit of Mount Doom. Sam starts to cry… so close…ĭarth Sidious enters the opening and sees Sauron. Even if they didn’t require Gollum, Sam doesn’t think he could even drag himself up to where the opening is. His lungs feel as though they might burst. His muscles scream with every agonizing movement. ![]() It has to be the opening Gandalf spoke of… but Sam can not move. Sam watches as the tall, armored one gets up and disappears into the side of the mountain, and the robed one follows soon after. Soon after, the two evil figures fall from the sky and roll on the rocks above where Sam and Frodo lay exhausted. The mountain tremors roughly and the Hobbits hear a deafening explosion. The two Hobbits lie motionless for several minutes, breathing hard. Frodo falls and Sam is dragged down again. ![]()
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