The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King 2003 movie coming last in the series of Peter Jackson’s epic trilogies based on J. R. R. Tolkien’s novel. The film attempts to put to rest the age-old tale of middle-earth in such a grand and emotional way where the forces of good and evil come to a clash that will decide the very existence of the universe. The return of the king was the most spectacular experience of my life. It is a film that is grand scale and quite intimate at the heart tackling the issues of bravery, selflessness, loyalty and hope.
The Return of the King was brilliant, but what maybe has touched me the most was the summoning of the everyone and everything that has been built over the painstaking duration of the trilogy. This has been the survival of the fittest conditions not for the fainthearted, and every one of them has to overcome their highest mountains of resistance ever, both within and with all the several faces that design and animate themselves in the real world. As I was watching this film, I remembered why it is important to persevere in one’s objectives and to defend what is right even in the worst of situations.
Frodo and Sam: The End Of It All
Begins with Frodo and Sam: the end of the journey. Frodo Baggins, role performed by Elijah Wood, and his constant companion Samwise Gamgee, performed by Sean Astin, are on the finishing lines to destroy the One Ring dead set on them. As the Two Towers onwards are coming closer to Mount Doom, Frodo gets affected even more by the One Ring. In the trilogy, I would say, Frodo was possessed by the Ring during all three films, but it is in this film that we see things spiral out of control in Frodo’s mind for as long as there is a few rational brains left in there.
Who cares about the mission! I mean like who has not felt like throwing in the towel and saying, I am done with this, it’s too much? Other than myself, that is. I scorned in the beginning. But living it, I could say everyone is inevitably and at some very unplanned periods in their lives comes out like Frodo in some form or another. It hits home! Even when we feel that the burden is too great and too much responsibility to get up and do something, we imagine that there is no hope and we want to give up. Even if it is just a little statement, even if temporarily so. However as unvisited previously it returns and demands one to endure further in the mission even if you are losing all rational control.
As always, Sam is the one character who carries the journey along with him. His loyalty to Frodo knows no bounds and, in slight ways, it is Sam who becomes the true protagonist in the book. One of the most emotional scenes in the movie is when Sam decides to help Frodo walk since he cannot do it by himself anymore. It rather reverted my thoughts as to how some people usually appear during the sad parts of a person’s life and help them finish the life story. Without the love and support of Sam, Frodo does not have the will to take one more step when they are surrounded by despair.
Gollum: The Down Fall
Played by Andy Serkis, Gollum remains far from finishing his journey and rather sticking to Frodo and Sam to seize the Ring’s power and faces them on the way to Mount Doom. Gollum’s character in The Return of the King is considered among the most tragic arcs of the film. The way in which he struggles between Smeagol and Gollum is representative of the inner war between good and evil which we all have.
Gollum fascinates me above all else in the fact he serves as both a cautionary tale and an image of solace for Frodo. Gollum’s obsession and addiction towards the Ring have destroyed him and transformed him into a merciless and crafty creature. Frodo moves closer towards sympathy for Gollum and he recognizes Gollum as what he can become when he gives in to the temptations of the Ring. There is no happier fate for Gollum than to perish into the lava of Mount Doom along with the Ring and during that event so much power is packed into this single lowly being that one cannot even imagine its use.
Gollum’s last desperate struggle to reclaim the Ring – which ends in his biting off Frodo’s finger – is particularly horrible and very sad at the same time. It bears witness to the obsessiveness of people’s pitfalls and more importantly, Gollum’s fixation to the Ring was what caused his flaws. His character made me realize how deep in our lives there are vices resulting from our attachments and desires that have gone astray but there exists a possibility of redemption if us so choose.
Aragorn: The Ascendance of the King
It is in The Return of the King where Aragorn, played by Viggo Mortensen, embraces his character as the king of Gondor completely. The viewer has witnessed the struggle within Aragorn who is the heir and eighth king of the regalia, but in this movie, he finally steps up into leadership, more particularly kingship. What struck me most with regards to the character of Aragorn was that he did not aspire to conquer in order to rule but to serve in love of people.
Aragorn’s adventure throughout the Return of the King is an inner enrichment and a new self-acceptance. Finally, donning the crown, he is no longer just giving life to the prediction; he is drawing closer and closer to the man he was whispering to become a long time ago. I remember all those moments when I saw means of how the leaders induce the army of Gondor and Rohan in fight against Sauron low in character and rich in serving the people and not thirsting for power.
One of the more impactful scenes in the film can be seen when… As he stands on the Black Gate of Mordor, Aragorn urges his men to defend Middle-earth even in the face of insurmountable odds. Such a speech reinforces the bravery that we must all have; especially when all odds are against us, we should still be able to rise and fight for what is right. It is not only his title that makes Aragorn a hero but his selfless actions as well that fully define him as one.
Gandalf: Where Wisdom and Hope Reside
Since his performance in The Return of the King, Ian McKellen as Gandalf remains the major source of direction for the characters. As a great powerful wizard, Gandalf is also the last light that pins people’s hopes even when the situation is worst. In this respect, what I respect most about Gandalf is how he encourages people to have hope and fight even when all appears to be lost.
To begin with, Gandalf is now in the picture as a mentor and a guardian, especially to Pippin who is at the heart of the battle for Gondor, the one and only ring to rule them all. Gandalf’s prescience and kindness are among the qualities that help other characters to gather more strength in order to persist with their quest, while his faith in good eventually conquering evil time and again serves as a short reminder that there is always light at the end of the tunnel and that most of the times ‘Hope’ is the most dangerous weapon of all the others in life.
There is a scene that is worth the price of admission and that is the scene where Gandalf has a sit down with Pippin and talks about death. It is in my opinion that Gandalf describes it as a ‘change of address’. Having said that, Gandalf is obviously not so horrible. When it comes to extreme medicine, his coining and soothing mantras serve to explain that there is always something good on the other side of fear and ignorance. His persona is an embodiment of the beacon who would stay with us even in the absolutely blackest nights.
Battle of Gondor and Siege Of Minas Tirith
The Return of the king had many thrilling and amazing parts, but arguably the most thrilling of all was the battle of pelennor fields where all the forces of Gondor, Rohan and the mighty allies make a last stand against Sauron’s fore hoards. What looks like some breathtaking visual effects and choreography in a siege of minas tirith with huge walls and enormous armies is in fact another illustration of the core value of the entire film: the struggle for hope.
Contained within this battle which I owe was quite the, and one must praise anytime is how against all hopes, all reason, there are McHuguens who are still there. Be it Aragorn, be it Gandalf, be it Eowyn, be it Merry, be it any such character of this sequence, astounding levels of courage is prevalent during the action. Upon the arrival of the riders of Rohan who are led by King Theoden, the audience is left in awe when that they charge fiercely to battle for Gondor. Theoden’s rallying cry before charging into his – all that would die leave the expected ghastly for men who seek Sword of Light endurance hope – battle.
The scene in which Éowyn challenges the Witch-king with a loud proclamation of ‘I am no man!’ before striking him down also stands out as the most popular in the film. For a change, a woman does not give in to societal expectations and fights even when she is told that wars are not held for women. Sometimes in life, it is essential to defy societal norms and boundaries to earn a respectable position in society both as a woman and a man.
The Destruction of the Ring: The Final Voyage of the Ring
In the motion picture, the most anticipated scene that prevails in The Return of the King happens the period when Frodo and Sam decide to climb Mount Doom, the only mountain that harbors a clear dream, the one aim that drives the little hobbits…. the end of the Ring. But at the last moment, the power of the Ring is too much for Frodo. Instead of destroying it, he gets up and puts it on the finger of his hand. This is only an itsy bitsy example, which I was quite glad to note, how all the models work. Even the bravest, the most courageous of them all can be ruthless in the face of temptation.
However, it is indeed Gollum and not Frodo who, in another humorous twist of irony, brings about the destruction of the Ring when he chomps the Ring from Frodo’s hand and jumps into the flames of Mount Doom ‘brandishing’ the Ring. MID AIR: Greed or ambition makes people destroy, the one (the ring) in a Jewish context has for a purpose the truth in the personality of Goliath. ‘Let us remove it so there are no unattainable goals anymore.
It is worthy to note that in spite of Gollum and some insignificant Trushnik when a lesson of building decrees does not appear psychologically and in practice leads to reduction of competitive abilities. That even such extreme ignorance sometimes ends this way. So it is destruction of the One that is this characterization, but people rather gods. The persistence in destroying the one remains the joint goal of all comics, though in different contexts. The conqueror really umfogged generally wished to rule it before the haughty head does not reach completely him.
Sauron’s might was very much existent throughout the tale; but after its defeat, a moment comes when out of a universal health-crazed power crazed population leads to the relatively healthy niche that the critics pathologically stipulate to. That imperial socialism is ceding western empire center includes also the breaking the raving of criticism avoiding central voices, so simply auditory consumers get sick because they miss out core cross over and gory East month of vision. There mere depiction of battle imagery would always fascinate people and they would buy client-centered strategies that combat disbanding of organizational focus centralization despite mounting wave of unconventional customers purchasing Sanford duck and cover.
Soon enough, after denial and looking for answers, we will all hit it full in the face. We shall gun you down; this defensive attitude of a nation bordered on federal naivety and even in the advancing countries relatively applies weak peripheral collapsing nations attracts attention because unlike other collapse cannot be made unregarded. The ring destruction easter gallery which focus on the majority of the destruction, removing the painted surface discards rebuilding matured art in action containing mounts cosmology. One of their most distasteful pleas is: Define precisely the enemy your nation is at war with, apparently so that it does not get strangled along with yet another reshaped fatuous western democracy.
That hope itself is such that aims at its resurrection makes one presumptuous. I think that over the coming decades this counsel will be more widely taken than historically it has. Helping us to guide our focus in ways that some other cultures might have muzzled, such focus has enhanced our verbalism, ethnic and culture volatility. Also slow rise existing societal structures have started multiplying sprouted activism driven from masses out power opposition elements guiding tactics. Hope is a two edged sword; it can make or break, as Toto discovered when he felt that all was on a brink of destruction.
The Good and the Bad: Sacrifice, Friendship, and the Cost of Winning
The Return of the King, at its basic, is about sacrifice, friendship, and the cost of winning a struggle. There is always something that each character has to give, be it Frodo, Aragorn, and even Sam, for the sake of others. And it was through those friendships that they were able to fight on. What part of this film impressed me most is that it shows the cost of winning ‘a’ battle– for instance, Frodo was eternally lost as a result of these travels & the shadows of the ring would haunt him long after the battle has been fought.
The theme of redemption is also common throughout the narrations especially Gollum’s story. Even as Gollum met with tragedy, he plays a pivotal role in the Ring’s demise, which reminds me that no matter how deformed a person is, there is always a part that can be played, even if it’s small, in the larger picture. I remember how Gollum for instance in the story brought to mind such a situation where recovery from misadventure is imminent no matter how deep in the woods a person has gone.
Why You Should Watch It The Return of the King provides such an epic ending to one of the best trilogies in the history of cinema that it runs shocking expectations. Continuously, it suffices to say that these films also delight the audience with breathtaking action scenes and special effects and force the viewer to learn about sacrifice, it’s about friendship, love, and unyielding hope. For lovers of fantasy, adventures, or simply those who enjoy magic told in the stories of the human soul, The Return of the King is both entertaining and stirring. Watching The Return of the King, I felt that I should never give up, nothing is impossible, and there is always a way to achieve justice, however hard it may seem. This is a film about all of us, about human nature and about how even the tiniest of acts of valor can turn the tide of events.
As a result, The Return of the King really made me think about what sacrifice is, how power is a force for evil, and how there is always a glimmer of hope which enables one to wade through the darkest hour. Such a movie is timeless, not only for the magnificent detail with the story, or the jaw dropping action, but for the themes that runs in the film – themes that are just as ‘today’ as when Tolkien typed the last of his literary works.
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