A Fitting End For An Unforgettable Adventure

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Return of the King: A Fitting End For An Unforgettable Adventure
What made Return of the King (ROTR) a timeless story? From its first publication in 1955 to the movie’s international release on December 2003, ROTR earned is widely acclaimed for its "masterly narration of tremendous and terrible climactic events" ADDIN CSL_CITATION { "citationItems" : [ { "id" : "ITEM-1", "itemData" : { "container-title" : "The Magazine of Fantasy and Fiction", "editor" : [ { "dropping-particle" : "", "family" : "Boucher", "given" : "Anthony", "non-dropping-particle" : "", "parse-names" : false, "suffix" : "" } ], "id" : "ITEM-1", "issued" : { "date-parts" : [ [ "1956", "7" ] ] }, "page" : "92", "title" : "Recommended Reading", "type" : "chapter" }, "uris" : [ "/documents/?uuid=46b5db56-05ef-456e-9d6a-3637963e253e" ] } ], "mendeley" : { "formattedCitation" : "(Boucher)", "plainTextFormattedCitation" : "(Boucher)", "previouslyFormattedCitation" : "(Boucher)" }, "properties" : { "noteIndex" : 0 }, "schema" : "https://github.com/citation-style-language/schema/raw/master/csl-citation.json" }(Boucher). No other writer has created an imaginary world with so complete a history as J.R.R. Tolkien did with the Lord of the Rings (LOTR) series. Anyone who has finished reading the trilogy would know "much about Tolkien's Middle Earth, its landscape, its fauna and flora, its peoples, their languages, their history, their cultural habits, as, outside his special field, he knows about the actual world" ADDIN CSL_CITATION { "citationItems" : [ { "id" : "ITEM-1", "itemData" : { "author" : [ { "dropping-particle" : "", "family" : "Auden", "given" : "W. H.", "non-dropping-particle" : "", "parse-names" : false, "suffix" : "" } ], "container-title" : "The New York Times", "id" : "ITEM-1", "issued" : { "date-parts" : [ [ "1956", "1", "22" ] ] }, "title" : "At the End of the Quest, Victory", "type" : "article-newspaper" }, "uris" : [ "/documents/?uuid=2bac6f8f-023e-4f1b-be27-43d9dcf4983a" ] } ], "mendeley" : { "formattedCitation" : "(Auden)", "plainTextFormattedCitation" : "(Auden)", "previouslyFormattedCitation" : "(Auden)" }, "properties" : { "noteIndex" : 0 }, "schema" : "https://github.com/citation-style-language/schema/raw/master/csl-citation.json" }(Auden). Tolkien has created a world not so far from our own – a world where Good and Evil are present, where people of different races must learn to unite if they are at all to survive, a world where love and happiness are always followed by pain and suffering.
Released on December 2003, Return of the King is the third and final installment of the LOTR series. In this final movie, the War of the Rings has reached its climax as the dark lord Sauron sets to overtake Minas Tirith and claim the kingdom of men for his own. The Fellowship, severely disadvantaged, must divide their forces if there is any hope of succeeding. What follows is a series of little stories featuring the challenges each character in the movie had to undertake – how the hobbit Smeagol became the vile Gollum, how Frodo and Sam, together sought to overcome the power of the One Ring, how Aragorn struggled to conquer his self doubt before he could take over the role he was destined to fulfill, how Eowyn and Arwen had to fight for their love, how Gandalf and Pippin struggled to find support in protecting Minas Tirith. This is a story of character, friendship and courage - a story meant to be told for generations to come. But like all good things, it has come to an end, the story is complete. And in that completeness, Return of the King is at the center giving us a deeper understanding of the characters, allowing us to take part in their journey. I remember a bittersweet feeling – of happiness for the success of my new-found friends, and of sadness for I will never be able to share in the rest of their journey. It is a feeling of rekindled friendships, of lost pasts and unpredictable futures. As the final credit rolls on the screen, I begin to wonder Sam and Rosie Cotton had children, and old they would be now, whet...