With help from Dunlendings and Goblin-men sent by Saruman, Lotho took over control of the Shire, imprisoning many, including important folk. Soon Saruman arrived and took full control and Lotho was deposed, imprisoned, and later killed by Wormtongue. The pace of destruction greatly increased afterwards.

So there was no other ‘better realm’ to take over. Though as the other answers all say, his primary motive was revenge, not power. Revenge on Gandalf for all his plots, and on Merry and Pippin for motivating the Ents to attack him, and on Frodo and Sam for destroying the Ring that he’d hoped to seize for himself.

Answer: The entire Scouring of the Shire sequence was never filmed. This was a deliberate choice by the film-makers to prevent the ending of the film from becoming overlong – the climax to the tale is, really, the destruction of the Ring and the fall of Sauron.

At the end of the book, the Shire had been blessed by the earth from Galadriel’s garden that Sam brought back with him. It caused everything, crops and people alike, to be much more fertile. At the end of the book, the Shire had been blessed by the earth from Galadriel’s garden that Sam brought back with him.

In the aftermath of that battle Frodo confronted Saruman and exiled him from the Shire, but before he could leave, Gríma Wormtongue killed Saruman by slitting his throat with a dagger, on the very doorstep of Bag End.

A Wizard, Gandalf, tells Frodo the history of the ring and persuades him to leave the Shire to destroy the Ring. He is joined by three other hobbits, his friends Sam, Merry, and Pippin. There, they learn that it can only be destroyed in the volcano, Mount Doom, where Sauron forged the Ring, in the evil land of Mordor.

In general, no (emphasis mine):

Answer has 24 votes. No, Frodo does not die in the third installment of ‘Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King’ in either the book or movie. He does not even die while standing over the lava of Mount Doom because the power of the ring takes a hold of Frodo, for it easily tempts anyone.

The name Frodo is a boy’s name. An admirable meaning, with roots in a Germanic word meaning wisdom, but we fear it will never be detached from the hobbit hero of The Lord of the Rings.

The Lord of the Rings: Age of selected characters

Gandalf’s original name of “Bladorthin” was not entirely lost though, as Tolkien eventually used it to name an ancient king, later in the books. Although Gandalf is his most commonly-used moniker, he went by several other names as well. In his origins as a Maiar spirit in Valinor, he was known as Olorin.