[The Saucepan Man]

Aragorn fighting the Witch King? Where did that come from? <P>No, I don't see it at all. The only possible place that this could happen is at Pelennor Fields, and I am pretty certain from other quotes that I have seen that the Eowyn/Merry/Witch King scene is in. <P>No, I would go with Aragorn facing Sauron at the Black Gate. Just because he's in diferent armour from the prologue to FotR doesn't mean it's not him. Even a Dark Lord might want to try something different in the armour department after 3000 years or so. <P>And I agree with HC on this. Although it's not true to the Book, it will make a great scene. Presumably it will be after the Mouth of Sauron has tried to trick them into surrendering. I can see the Black Gate then opening and Sauron leading his forces out into battle. And who better to challenge him but Aragorn, the returning King? As HC's speculative, but convincing, scenario illustrates, it will make a great climax, cut with Frodo, Sam and Gollum at the Crack of Doom.<P>Also, I don't think that Sauron assuming physical form is inconsistent with the Book. I recall reading somewhere (sorry, can't remember where now) that Sauron was able to assume physical form at the time of the War of the Ring. (Perhaps the eye might be seen more as an ethereal extension of his will.)<P>Anyway, given that after FotR and (particularly) TTT we cannot expect the film to mirror the Book exactly (in my view rightly so as it is a different media), I have no problem with Sauron taking on Aragorn. Seems to me that it would be pretty spectacular.