I read an exploration of "What if Sauron captured/killed Frodo and got the Ring back?" Aragorn and the army, including the Rohirrim and the entire Fellowship, were wiped out by Sauron's magnified power — and in the aftermath, Faramir and Arwen became a couple. (I forget the author; sorry ... but it struck me as a rather scholarly extrapolation.)
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"The Lady of the Lake, her arm clad in the purest shimmering samite, held aloft Excalibur from the bosom of the water, signifying by divine providence that this was some killer weed."
"The Lady of the Lake, her arm clad in the purest shimmering samite, held aloft Excalibur from the bosom of the water, signifying by divine providence that this was some killer weed."