One of the ideas that filmmaker Peter Jackson toyed with for his The Lord of the Rings trilogy was to end the third movie on a much darker note. He said in his biography, Peter Jackson: A Film-maker's Journey, that one of the ideas being tossed around was for Frodo to kill Gollum in cold blood.
The idea was that Frodo was so overwhelmed by the allure of the One Ring that he would kill Gollum to get it back when they were tussling at the Cracks of Doom. This was in fact more than an idea, as it turns out, as Jackson revealed that he actually filmed this version of the ending.
"When we originally shot the scene, Gollum bit off Frodo's finger and Frodo pushed Gollum off the ledge into the fires below," Jackson recalled (via Digital Spy). "It was straight-out murder, but at the time we were okay with it because we felt everyone wanted Frodo to kill Gollum."
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