Dear Readers, if you are tired of me using the word epic in these Lord of the Rings reviews, I have two things to say. First of all, stop reading here because it will be used a lot more, second of all what other word is there to use? I can't think of another word to describe it. I will now plow right into this review of the epic conclusion to the Lord of the Rings trilogy.
Once again this review contains spoilers so if you havn't seen Return of the King, go watch it and then read this review. The movie starts out with a great back story on Smeagol (a.k.a Gollum) he's fishing with his friend Deagol and Deagol finds the Ring. Smeagol wants it and he kills Deagol and takes it. Then you really see Smeagol deterriorate he becomes Gollum that scene is so dark and disturbing. It sets the tone for the film so well. Then you see Aragorn, Gimli, Gandalf, and Legolas celebrating their victory at Helms Deep. Due to the curiosity of Pippin, they find out about Sauron's plan to attack Minas Trith, which is basically the capitol of the free people of Middle Earth. In Minas Trith you meet Danonther who's the steward of the throne of Gondor. He was Boromir's father and he's still dealing with his death. Gandalf is telling him about Sauron's plan to attack and he dosn't listen. He just sends Faromir out to attack Osigilliath. Basically he's sending his other son to his death. I couldn't stand Danonther he was such a terrible father and i hated it when he said "I've heard of this Aragorn son of Arathorn I will never bow to this ranger from the North." You can tell he just wants to be king. He wants the reign of Gondor.
Meanwhile back in Rohan, King Theodin and Aragorn are rounding up men to come to Gondor's aid. Only they don't have enough men. Aragorn goes into the mountains to summon this ghost army who broke an oath to Iseldor and they now live in the mountains until they've fufulled they're oath. This all leads up to the battle of Pelanor Fields which is probably my favorate battle scene in a movie. That battle was so epic.
Throughout the movie you see Gollum trying to get Frodo killed so he can take the Ring for himself. The evil in him has won over he just wants the Ring. Sam and Gollum are like the angel and demon on his shoulders. Sam sees it the entire time. I hated the scene when Gollum manipulates Frodo so much he sends Sam away. That scene was also very dark. But Sam comes back to save the day. He takes on a big disgusting spider and wins, he kills some oarks who took Frodo, and they make it to Mordor. Now Aragorn and the others have a decision to make. They decide to ride out to the Black Gate and draw Sauron's eye out. Because 10,000 oarks stand between Frodo and Mount Doom. They're out fighting and Frodo and Sam make it to Mount Doom. The Ring takes Frodo just as it did Iseldor thousands of years earlier. I honestly didn't expect that. But Gollum shows up and they fight for it. They both go over the edge, but Frodo holds on and Gollum falls into the lava with the Ring. The Ring finally gets destroyed and all evil just crumbles.
The ending is very long. It takes awhile for the movie to wrap up. Aragorn takes the throne of Gondor, and the hobbits return to the Shire. Frodo is struggling to return to normal life, and finally you see Bilbo get afforded the right of the elves to leave Middle Earth. Basically Bilbo is going to elf heaven. Then you see Frodo going with them which was so sad. Everytime I watch this always get the urge to cry. It was so sad but it was a necessary end.
This is an epic conclusion to an epic trilogy. There's alot of action, a lot of heart felt drama, a lot of great diologue. Lord of the Rings definatley are three of my favorate movies of all time it may even be number one. Of course Return of the King gets 5 stars. There's so much more I want to say but this review is long enough. My next review will be a reivew of the hobbit.
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