[SPOILER - highlight to read]: Heheh i love this part. First he bites Frodo's finger off when Frodo has the ring in it, then he is so happy that he gets his ring back that he starts dancing. But he dances to the edge where he falls into the fiery pit of Mount Doom. Theoden dies in Pellenor battle. Denethor, Faramir's and Boromir's father commits suicide.
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king theodon, denethor *boromir and faramir's dad*, gollum, saruman *not sure*, sauron *duh and his orcs, and shelob. this isn't a spoiler for those of you who bothered to read the books.
Grima Wormtongue dies in ROTK he's definitely the best, so it sucks that he dies. Eowyn also dies along with saurmon, smeagol, theoden, and faramir's dad
Eowyn doesnt die. She recovers in the house of healing. Sarumans spirit leaves him and heads west, but doesnt it then get turned away and it kind of disapates. I guess if you count the appendices then nearly every one dies, aragorn, arwen, eomer, etc....
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and filled with wrath and despair he mounted upon Rochallor his great horse and rode forth alone, and none might restrain him. He passed over Dor-nu-Fauglith like a wind amid the dust, and all that beheld his onset fled in amaze, thinking that Oromë himself was come: for a great madness of rage was upon him, so that his eyes shone like the eyes of the Valar.
__________________ From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
a light from the shadows shall spring.
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
the crownless again shall be king.
Sauron actually doesn't die... He just becomes perminently diminished, a weak spirit unable to take any sort of physical form.
By the way, did you know that the name "Sauron" means "foul-smelling one?"
(Elvish; Quenya dialect)
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Of that name he was ever fond
In his short time the Orcs he slew
Were so many that Evil flew
At the mere mention of his name
He who killed foul things for game
no i didnt....but im not sure if that is the purpose of this thread...hey and by the way if you wanna count flashbacks from ROTK, then smeagol's childhood friend deagol dies too, when they show smeagol as his normal appearance (one of the riverfolk)
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"Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens." - J.R.R. Tolkien
Sauron was only banished into the Void where Morgoth was banished too. In the film, unfortunately the Shire scouring was cut out, so Saruman dies in Isengard.
I don't think the orcs passed away. They will come back in the Dagor Dagorath - The Last Battle, where the Dark Lords shall return but suffer defeat, and die forever, and Arda will begin anew!