Everything GREAT About The Lord of The Rings: The Return of The King!

And the finale to the LOTR movies Return of the King! All in one long video, extended version in all its glory. Hope everyone is still enjoying Rings of Power. Here's everything right with Return of The King!

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[CinemaWins]

Don't fret! EGA The Batman Part 2 will be published tomorrow!

[Stormphraxx]

Ive always said that the "You bow to no one" scene...is the greatest scene of all time. There's so much weight behind the action of the newly crowded King of Gondor bowing to the hobbits whe gave everything. Hobbits who none really expected anything from. Its an incredible moment of humbleness and a perfect conclusion to the hobbits storyline

[anjelica]

When I was younger, I didn’t fully grasp why Frodo had to leave Middle Earth, and why, after suffering so much to preserve and save the place he loved, that he couldn’t adjust/be happy to be back.
And then I went through things and ended up with PTSD. And I completely understood- and you can tell Tolkien did too, why sometimes you just can’t go back to the way things were. And now the ending that kind of confused me makes me feel all the emotions. One of the best trilogies of All Time.

[NickPiers]

Funny little anecdote about the multiple endings:

I saw this in theatres with my girlfriend at the time. We shared a giant order of root beer. I have a relatively strong bladder. She didn't. But she was also stubborn and wanted to see the movie to the end, at the credits. During the multiple endings, her squirming increased as her need to pee got worse.

By the end, she was angerly whispering just loud enough for me to hear "Get on the boat, get on the boat, GET ON THE BOAT YOU FUCKING HOBBITS."

[aliciacordero]

17:36 This was actually explicitly confirmed by Tolkien himself in one of his letters. In that moment, in the place it was forged, the ring's power was so great that there was literally no one in all of creation, no one but the gods themselves and their creator, who could have brought themselves to willingly destroy the ring. Frodo didn't fail, he brought the ring further than humanly possible so that Fate could do what no mortal could.

[basmca]

'For Frodo'
'DEATHHH'
'I can carry YOU'
'You bow to no one'
'I am no man'

This movie has the best freaking heroic and honourable moments in any movie ever.

[CatCheshireThe]

A really subtle thing in this movie: Sam is the only character in the trilogy to ever just give the Ring to another person of their own free will. Even when Gandalf originally gives it to Frodo, he can't bring himself to just hand it to him. He just drops it on the floor to leave it for Frodo to pick up. Everyone else has to be at least somewhat forced to give up the Ring.

[JayMcKean]

I love the consistency of Legolas' weight throughout the trilogy, in the first movie he walks, barely leaving a footprint, on top of snow that is covering the rest of the fellowship up to their shoulders. So it makes sense that he can climb the thin wooden arrow shafts protruding from the oliphants legs without a worry

[BlastedOblivion]

I think my favorite understory is how Pippen's repeated stupid mistakes actually helped them time and time again even allowing them to win.

He accidentally pushed a bucket and armored body down a well attracting the goblins. This leads to Gandalf's death and rebirth stronger than before.

He touches the palantir endangering himself but learning important details of Saurons plan giving the heroes time to prepare.

He swore his service to a clearly insane man when Gandalf told him to not speak. This put him in a position to alert Gandalf and save Faromir.

He even had some clever moments. Telling Treebeard to head to Saurumon's tower which brought the Ents into the war and destroying one of Sauron's major assets.

[jasonsabbath]

I truly believe Sean Astin deserved a Best Supporting Actor nomination for Return of the King. His performance was incredible!

[rebbyberard]

the fact that this trilogy exists because of Tolkien's experience in WW1, to then involve an actual war hero from WW2, who was also the only member of the cast to have met Tolkien... truly amazing

[chasehedges]

The moment where Frodo says, “The Ring is mine” still gives me chills.

[agut.]

The scene that always stood out to me is Eomer's gut-wrenching scream of terror when he and the others are looking for survivors after the battle and he finds his lifeless sister who he believed to be safe at home. Just a few second long, but still Karl Urban's best performance in this movie.

[AbbyLeaf]

One of my favourite little subplots of this movie is Pippin and Faramir's friendship, and Pippin talking about Faramir having a value of a "different kind". The kind this whole trilogy has been about; mercy, kindness, understanding. The value of knowing not to love the sword for it's brightness, but to love only that which it defends. It's extra sweet knowing that Pippin named his son Faramir & that there remained a great friendship between them for as long as they both lived.

[_Francis_York_Morgan]

Extra win when talking about the troll drummers at 8:48 is that they're beating the same 5/4 rhythm that was first introduced in the score with Isengard in Fellowship. It's an off-kilter cadence to march to, which gives a diagetic reinforcement to the twisted unnaturalness of the orcs.

[PhDFlopping]

“For Frodo…” gives me chills everytime

[craigsteinkamp]

The beacon score is one of my favorite in film. It really builds inside you like a fire giving a visceral feel to the “hope is kindle” line.

[nocgenius]

The Ride of the Rohirrim is my favorite theme in all of these movies. It starts as this woeful and melancholy filled melody, mourning the death and forgotten way of the Rohirrim, and ends with the return of a once great culture with horns triumphant throughout, and the strings played so loud its almost deafening

[Crazael]

10:03 I love the look of disgust on Gandalf's face after he smacks Denethor in the face the first time. A perfect encapsulation of how fed up he is with him at that point.

[DanielDtravis]

A win that was missed that was always significant to me was the singular flower that bloomed on the white tree. It signified that King of Gondor was near. Not near in the sense of location but near in the sense that Aragorn had finally developed into the man he needed to be to make his rightful claim.