As the title for The Hobbit: Part 3 was recently change, now it seems like fans are demanding that other changes also be made, specifically with regards to the plot of the film.

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Peter Jackson recently announced that the film's title was recently changed to The Battle of Five Armies from There and Back Again.

Now it seems like the fans are taking it a step further and requesting that changes be made to the plot as well. The fans signed an online petition asking the producers to keep Oakenshield alive unlike his fate in the book.

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Here's the official petition:

"Despite the many fans' love to the familiar main characters such as Bilbo and Gandalf, not less we liked Thorin Oakenshield. For many of us, he means more than might be imagined: for each of us, his fans, he represents something different, attractive in his own way, and this is not just a hysterical fan love. We deeply regret that Professor Tolkien killed Thorin in the book, but do not absolutely want and are not going to challenge the correctness of this action. Instead, we decided to turn to you with a request not to kill him at least in the movie."

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The director announced that he had retitled the film, which will now be called The Battle of the Five Armies, via his Facebook page on April 24.

He expressed his reasons for making the change:

"There and Back Again felt like the right name for the second of a two films telling of the quest to reclaim Erebor, when Bilbo's arrival there, and departure, were both contained within the second film," wrote Jackson. "But with three movies, it suddenly felt misplaced - after all, Bilbo has already arrived 'there' in the Desolation of Smaug."

Jackson said he had been considering the change for quite some time now and even had a conversation with the studio about that during the premiere trip for the Desolation of Smaug.

"We decided to keep an open mind until a cut of the film was ready to look at," he stated. "We reached that point last week, and after viewing the movie, we all agreed there is now one title that feels completely appropriate."

The Hobbit: The Battle of Five Armies will hit theaters on Dec. 18.

Watch the trailer for The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug:

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