last part of the lord of the rings
The Return of the King
title: The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King text: The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King is a 2003 epic fantasy adventure film co-produced, co-written, and directed by Peter Jackson based on the second and third volumes of J. R. R. Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings". It is the third and final instalment in "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy, following "" (2001) and "" (2002), preceding "The Hobbit" film trilogy (2012–14). Released on 17 December 2003, "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King" became one of the most critically and commercially title: Dominion of Men text: Dominion of Men The Dominion of Men is a period in J.R.R. Tolkien's legendarium that follows the events of "The Lord of the Rings" and the Third Age". The last installment of J. R. R. Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings", "The Return of the King", chronicles the End of the Third Age of Middle-earth, and the destruction of the One Ring. With Sauron defeated, and the coming of the Fourth Age, many things of the Elder Days faded from the world or passed into the west, bringing about the "Dominion of Men." After the Battle at the Black Gates title: The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring text: Frodo and the Ring, the "backbone" of the story. The prologue condenses Tolkien's backstory, in which The Last Alliance's seven-year siege of the Barad-dûr is a single battle, where Sauron is shown to explode, though Tolkien only said his spirit flees. Events from the book are condensed or omitted altogether at the beginning of the film. The time between Gandalf leaving the Ring to Frodo and returning to reveal its inscription, which is 17 years in the book, is compressed for timing reasons. Frodo also spends a few months preparing to move to Buckland, on the eastern border of the title: The Lord of the Rings text: of Bilbo and Gandalf, Frodo sails from the Grey Havens west over the Sea to the Undying Lands to find peace. In the appendices, Sam gives his daughter Elanor the "Red Book of Westmarch", which contains the story of Bilbo's adventures and the War of the Ring as witnessed by the hobbits. Sam is then said to have crossed west over the Sea himself, the last of the Ring-bearers. Some characters in "The Lord of the Rings" are unequivocal protagonists, and others are absolute antagonists. However despite criticism that the book's characters "are all either black or white", some of title: The History of The Lord of the Rings text: or, as Christopher Tolkien calls them, "phases", and finishes with the Fellowship of the Ring entering the Mines of Moria. The second volume continues to the meeting with Théoden king of Rohan, and includes discussions of the original map of Middle-earth at the end of the Third Age, and of the evolution of Cirth. The third volume, "The War of the Ring" continues to the opening of the Black Gate. The last volume finishes the story and features the rejected "Epilogue", in which Sam answers his children's questions. It also includes "The Notion Club Papers" (a time-travel story related to