It starts with Smeagol and a friend fishing. Fallen in the water, Deagol sees a ring and takes it. When Smeagol sees it, he wants it, they fight for it and Smeagol strangles his friend. The ring speaks to him, and Smeagol becomes Gollum.
He was never innocent, not truly, not like our hobbit.
Team Aragorn reach Isengard and meet Merry and Pippin there. Pippin saw the palantir at Isengard and is ensnared. He takes it again during the night while Gandalf is asleep.
“Fool of a Took” oh yeah, Sauron saw him.
Pippin saw Minas Tirith burning, that’s Sauron’s next move.
Now that Sauron’s seen Pippin, Gandalf takes him to Minas Tirith, away from Rohan. Merry stays with the others.
Lord Denethor - I never liked him, not at all, actually I despise him a lot.
Denethor grieves Boromir’s death; Gandalf warned Pippin that he should not talk at all, but now he says Boromir died to defend them, and “I offer you my service, such as it is, in payment of this debt”.
Gandalf tells Denethor to light the beacons to call for help in the was that approaches, but Denethor - they call Gandalf Mithrandir here - he knows of Aragorn’s existence, and he has no intention of giving up his power.
Gandalf: “authority is not given to you to deny the return of the king, steward”
Gandalf also says that: in the last battle, the deadliest servant of Sauron will lead his armies, “the one they say no living man can kill. The witch-king of Angmar”, the one who stabbed Frodo.
When the war starts, Gandalf has Pippin light the beacon, even if Denethor didn’t want to.
A few moments and the beacon at Amon Din responds, is lit, and then others… until Aragorn sees it and runs to Theoden. “Gondor calls for aid” - “And Rohan will answer”. Eowyn should stay behind with her people, but she wants to go with the warriors.
Team Faramir has to retreat as well, to Minas Tirith, having lost the citadel. Pippin swears loyalty to Gondor, Denethor has him kiss his ring.
Denethor admits out loud that he wishes Faramir had died instead of Boromir, and he sends him back to retake Osgiliath.
Faramir and his men leave for Osgiliath, but everybody knows it’s for death. And die they will.
When Sauron’s army approaches, only Faramir’s body makes it back, with two arrows in him.
Now Denethor is all “my line has ended”, he yells it even as Pippin calls for help, because Faramir is not yet dead. After what he did, he still blames others, calling Theoden a betrayer because he’s not yet arrived. He orders his men to flee for their lives, but then Gandalf knocks him out with his staff and takes charge, giving new orders, actual orders. Gandalf fights too.
The orcs throw the heads of Faramir’s men as if they were stones. They have trolls, and towers to take the city, and even a flaming wolf-thingy. They throw fire.
Denethor takes Faramir to his tomb, wants to burn his body. No matter how much Pippin yells, he doesn’t care. The city is breached, they retreat.
Eomer speaks of an evil mountain, the one at their backs, and Aragorn feels it.
Eowyn dresses Merry for battle. Nobody wants Merry to come, but his position is like Eowyn’s, so she has him ride with her, dressed as soldiers.
Arwen while riding towards the ship, sees a child, a vision, the child wears her jewel, and she turns and rides back. She stays, because there’s not only death and grief ahead, she also has a son to look forward too. Arwen asks Elrond to reforge the Sword.
By her choice, she’s now mortal, so he does it, he has people working on it.
During the night, Elrond comes to see Aragorn because Arwen is dying, the stronger Sauron’s darkness is, the weaker she becomes. Elrond says they’re outnumbered and can’t make it. In the mountains there are wraiths of murderers, but they’ll answer to the king of Gondor, and here Elrond gives him Anduril, the sword forged from the shards of Narsil, so Aragorn has to accept that he’s king.
Aragorn turns Eowyn down and leaves, and Legolas and Gimli join him, of course.
In the mountain, there are men who fled instead of answering Gondor’s call as was their oath, so Isildur cursed them.
Sam hears Gollum talking to himself about killing them to take the ring, but Frodo doesn’t care, he says they need a guide. As promised, Gollum leads them to the secret stairs. He also throws away their lembas bread to blame Sam, plant discord, and Frodo tells Sam to leave and go home.
Gollum leads him to a tunnel, to his trap. It’s dark, but the light of Elendil shows him the huge spider. Frodo gets away but loses his sword. He fights with Gollum who falls down. Frodo faints and sees Galadriel, remembering her words of “must find a way” so he goes on. He’s determined, but the spider finds him again, and stings him, but Sam followed, he found Frodo’s sword and the light of Elendil, and he battles Shelob; he hurts it badly so it retreats. Frodo looks dead though. Orcs come and Sam hides, and learns from their talking to each other that Frodo’s not dead and is being brought to their tower.
The battle of Gondor is terrible, but finally Rohan arrives, and they attack. Pippin calls for Gandalf’s help to save Faramir. Denethor still burns and dies.
Theoden’s army is great, but then the oliphants arrive.
“Death is just another path” says Gandalf.
It’s a great battle when a Nazgul gets Theoden, Eowybn goes between the two, kills its beast and faces the wraith. “You fool, no man can kill me” - Merry stabs it, to help her, then : “I am no man” and she defeats him.
Finally, finally Aragorn arrives with his army of dead. Theoden dies. The army of the dead is released after it is over.
When Frodo wakes up, the orcs have taken his clothes and all he had with him. The orcs fight amongst themselves so Sam can enter and reach Frodo and save him. Now Sam shows him that the orcs have not taken the ring, Sam did when he thought he was dead.
Dressed like orcs, they move for Mount Doom.
Aragorn plans to draw Sauron’s army away from Frodo, so they march. It works, for Frodo and Sam see their path clearing, the orcs moving away. At the black gate, Aragorn and everyone draw the army of Sauron and his eye away from Frodo.
When Frodo falls down, Sam carries him forward. He still has to battle Gollum; Frodo comes back to himself and runs inside Mount Doom. He takes the ring but he has no strength to throw it in, and instead puts it on. Sam starts to despair but Gollum finds him and fights him for the ring, and takes it by biting his finger off.
The great eagles come to fight the nazguls. Frodo fights him again, and Gollum and the ring fall down inside the vulcano, but Sam saves Frodo.
Again.
The ring melts, and the eye’s tower crambles.
It’s over now, but Frodo and Sam have nowhere to go. There’s lava all around them. (They can bare the heat quite well, they’re not even sweating…)
Gandalf arrives with the eagles to take them away, to safety.
Now Gandalf crowns Aragorn, king of Gondor.
We can see Eowyn and Faramir next to each other, but the normal edition shows no more than that.
When Arwen shows herself, Aragorn kisses her.
Aragorn first, and then all the others bow to the four hobbits.
Thirteen months after they set off on their adventure, they are back home.
This time, though, Sam goes to talk to Rosie and then marries her.
Frodo can never feel like before. We see he added to Bilbo’s book, adding “and the lord of the rings by Frodo Baggins”
Four years after he was stabbed, Frodo’s injury still hurts. Bilbo, now very old, has a place on the last ship to leave middle-earth.
Elrond, Galadriel and her husband are waiting by the ship. Gandalf goes too, it is now the age of men. Frodo has to go too.
He gives his book to Sam: “the last pages are for you, Sam”
Sam cries, then Frodo leaves. Sam goes back home, with his wife and two children, in his beautiful house.
In the credits there is al usual: conceptual designers: Alan Lee and John Howe
Basically the same cast, anyway here they are:
Frodo - Elijah Wood
Sam - Sean Astin
Merry - Dominic Monaghan
Pippin - Billy Boyd
Gandalf - Ian McKellen
Aragorn - Viggo Mortensen
Legolas - Orlando Bloom
Gimli - John Rhys-Davies
Elrond - Hugo Weaving
Arwen - Liv Tyler
Theoden - Bernard Hill
Eowyn - Miranda Otto
Eomer - Karl Urban
Faramir - David Wenham
Boromir - Sean Bean
Denethor - John Noble
Galadriel - Cate Blanchett
Celeborn - Marton Csokas
Rosie Cotton - Sarah McLeod
Bilbo - Ian Holm
Gollum - Andy Serkis
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