Frodo Biggins played by Elijah Wood giving a top rated movies act and Samwise Gamgee laid by Sean Astin giving a top movies performance, accompanying Gollum come to Mina Morgul. The Fellowship is at Edoras after the victory of Helm’s Deep and Gandalf the White, portrayed by Ian Mckellen who is good for top 10 movies list, is of the opinion that Saruman will not attempt another attack. Sauron enters Pippins, played by Bill Boyd giving a top movies performance, mind through a Palantir and tries to know about the Ring from which Gandalf concludes that he is going to attack Minas Tirith and heads towards it with Pippin. Arwen urges Elrond to resurrect Anduril, the sword that had cut Sauron’s finger. On reaching Minas Tirith Gandalfi and Pippin try to convince Denethor about Sauron’s attack and propose he take help from Aragorn but Denethor does not agree. Denethor orders his son Faramir to reclaim the city of Osgiliath from the Nazgul but Faramir and his knights are killed by Nazgul. At Dunharrow Elrond meets Aragorn and tells him about the Corsair Ships arriving in Minas Tirith and that Arwen’s fate is tied with the fate of the Ring. He also hands him the Anduril Sword and asks him to reclaim his throne of Isildur. Theoden, enacted by Bernard Hill in a top 10 movies role, arrives in Dunharrow with 6000 strong army to ward off the Morgul army. The Witchking is finally defeated but Theoden is killed by him and Eowyn and Merry take revenge by killing Witchking. Gondor is free and Aragorn is crowned the King.
Aragorn portrayed by Viggo Mortensen in a superlative performance of top rated movies, prepares to leave for Black Gate to help Frodo. Frodo and Sam are going to Mount Doom when they are attacked by Gollum, who bites off the finger on which Frodo is wearing the Ring and in the ensuing fight between Frodo and Gollum, both fall off the cliff. Frodo is saved when he holds on to a ledge but Gollum and the Ring fall into the lava. The destruction of the Ring collapses the Mordor into a chasm, finishing Sauron and his army of Orcs. Frodo decides to leave for the Undying Lands with the Fellowship members except Sam who returns to the Shire to marry his childhood lover Rosie Cotton.
The impact of the start was as heavy as that of the end. A Magnum Opus presented by Peter Jackson. The same tout script, the same flow of the narrative and the same grandeur of the presentation. It will take some years for some other creative genius to match the standards set by Peter. The Trilogy is like a three course dinner. You can’t start with the middle and you can’t finish at the first. Once you have seen the Trilogy you may lose your sleep thinking about it but you are sure to lose your peace of mind if you miss it. Musical score is by Howard Shore, who has also composed for the first two parts of the trilogy.
