Saruman and ending explained!

Rating: Null/10 (18 December 2003)

okay, this will include some spoilers, so if you havent seen it, stop.
first off, loved the movie, best so far, blah blah blah. there are a million positive reviews of it, so im going to do something different. first off, the lack of Christopher Lee's character, Saruman. Jackson was quoted in an interview with Knowles as saying "When we viewed various ROTK cuts over the last few weeks, it feels like the first scenes are wrapping last year's movie, instead of starting the new one since Saruman plays no role in the events of ROTK. We reluctantly made the decision to save this sequence for the DVD. The choice was made on the basis that most people will assume that Saruman was vanquished by the Helm's Deep events, and Ent attack. We can now crack straight into setting up the narrative tension of ROTK, which features Sauron as the villian...The Saruman sequence will definately be a highlight of the Extended ROTK DVD." of which there are 5 different death scenes that they shot.
okay, now for the ending... there are several end scenes, but they are actually just one idea. All of these endings are for the characters who have come in physical contact with the Ring during the LOTR series. There is Sauron's death, who of course is the master of the Ring. Then of course, Frodo and Bilbo's ending on the boat, along with Gandalf (because he tried to pick the Ring up off the floor in Fellowship.) Of course, Gollum dies in the Mt. Doom scene, with the Ring in hand. Then the last person to touch the Ring in ROTK, is Sam, and that of course if the final ending. (Sidenote: the only two other characters we see to have touched the Ring in the series is Isildur and Boromir, and they both die in the Fellowship. so their ending of course can not be incorporated into ROTK.) so all of these endings are intended to wrap up the Ringbearers. as far as the scenes of Aragorn's crowning, and the reunion of the Fellowship in Rivendell, those are pretty much vital to wrap up the story.