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The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

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The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

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The Oscar-winning final part of Peter Jackson's adaptation of JRR Tolkien's fantasy adventure. The hobbit Frodo continues his journey to destroy the ring before the evil Lord Sauron can seize it. He is accompanied deep into Mordor by Gollum, who has a darker motive for keeping the "precious" ring close.

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A star rating of 5 out of 5.

Alan Jones

Peter Jackson deservedly won the best director Oscar for this powerful and enchanting concluding episode to his massively ambitious adaptation of JRR Tolkien's trilogy. It also became the first fantasy film to receive the best picture Oscar and won awards in all the categories it was nominated for, equalling the record haul of 11 set by Ben-Hur and Titanic. One staggeringly beautiful sight follows another as the brilliant ensemble cast brings Tolkien's fantasy masterpiece to life, and Jackson mixes man, myth and magic together with astonishing scope and intoxicating invention. The action picks up from The Two Towers with Frodo crawling to Mount Doom to finally destroy the ring, while Aragorn enlists an army of the dead to help Gandalf defend the besieged city of Minas Tirith from the Witch-king and his armies. Jackson's loyalty to Tolkien's over-stuffed text means certain characters get little screen time and the ending does drag on with its series of teary farewells. But these are minor gripes considering his towering achievement in creating a timeless, literate and passionate masterpiece that will live for ever. The Minas Tirith battle sequence in particular will surely go down as one of the greatest in cinema history.

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rolenameFrodo BagginsElijah WoodGandalf the WhiteIan McKellenArwen UndómielLiv TylerAragorn / StriderViggo MortensenSamwise "Sam" GamgeeSean AstinGaladrielCate BlanchettGimliJohn Rhys-DaviesKing ThéodenBernard HillPeregrin "Pippin" TookBilly Boyd (1)Meriadoc "Merry" BrandybuckDominic MonaghanLegolas GreenleafOrlando BloomElrondHugo WeavingEowyn of RohanMiranda OttoFaramirDavid WenhamEomerKarl UrbanDenethor, Steward of GondorJohn NobleSméagol / GollumAndy SerkisBilbo BagginsIan HolmBoromirSean BeanCelebornMarton CsokasVoice of the RingAlan HowardJackson, PeterMercenary on a boat

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Theatrical distributor

Entertainment

Released on

2003-12-19

Languages

English

Guidance

Violence.

Available on

video, DVD and Blu-ray

Formats

Colour

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