The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King is a 2. Peter Jackson based on the second and third volumes of J. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings. It was only the second film to gross $1 billion worldwide ($1. New Line Cinema, as well as the biggest financial success for Time Warner in general, until Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows . The film was the highest- grossing film of 2. As of June 2. 01. At the 7. 6th Academy Awards, it won all 1. Academy Awards for which it was nominated, therefore holding the record for highest Oscar sweep. The wins included the awards for Best Picture, the first and only time a fantasy film has done so. The film jointly holds the record for the largest number of Academy Awards won with Ben- Hur (1. Titanic (1. 99. 7). Gandalf leads Aragorn, Legolas, Gimli, and King Th. With Saruman defeated, Gandalf retrieves Saruman's palant. Lord-Of-The-Rings-Part-2-The-Two-Towers-By-J-R-R-Tolkien is hosted at free file sharing service 4shared. Share Add to my account. URL: HTML code: Forum. Title: The Two Towers The Lord Of The Rings Part 2 Author: Bernd Weissmuller Subject: the two towers the lord of the rings part 2 Keywords: Read Online the two towers the lord of the rings part 2, the two towers the lord of. Title: The Two Towers The Lord Of The Rings Part 2 Author: Andrea Bergmann Subject: the two towers the lord of the rings part 2 Keywords: Read Online the two towers the lord of the rings part 2, the two towers the lord of the. Overcome by curiosity, Pippin steals a glance into the seeing- stone, and suffers a mental attack from Sauron himself. Gandalf deduces that Sauron will attack Gondor's capital Minas Tirith, so he rides there to warn them, taking Pippin with him because Sauron thinks Pippin is the ring bearer. Meanwhile, Frodo Baggins and Samwise Gamgee are led by Gollum to Minas Morgul where they witness the Witch- king of Angmar leading an Orc army to drive Denethor's younger son Faramir and his men from Osgiliath. At Gollum's urging, the three begin climbing a precarious stair carved in the cliff face that will take them into Mordor via a 'secret way'. Search for 'The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers' on Amazon.com. Another 114 wins & 127 nominations. See more awards Getting Started Part 2 of the extended edition version of the battle at Balin's tomb in Moria. LOTR The Fellowship of the Ring - Extended Edition. But having overheard Gollum's plot to regain the Ring, Sam keeps a suspicious eye on him. In Gondor, Pippin follows Gandalf's instructions and secretly lights the beacon to signal Th. After seeing a vision of her son she refused to leave Middle Earth. Elrond then gives Aragorn the sword And. Joined by Legolas and Gimli, Aragorn travels to the Paths of the Dead, recruiting the Army of the Dead with the promise to release them from their curse once they fulfil their oath to Isildur. Faramir is gravely wounded after a futile effort to retake Osgiliath, and believing his son to be dead, Denethor falls into madness. Gandalf is left to command the city defences against the Orc army led by Gothmog. But as Gothmog's forces eventually force their way into the city, Denethor tries to kill himself and Faramir on a pyre. Pippin alerts Gandalf and they save Faramir, but Denethor leaps to his death from the top of Minas Tirith just before Th. Initially the Rohirrim have the advantage at the Battle of the Pelennor Fields, but are eventually overwhelmed by the Oliphaunt- riding Haradrim while the Witch- king mortally wounds Th. Aragorn arrives with the Army of the Dead, they overcome the Orcs and win the battle. The Dead are released from their curse, and the wounded are tended to. Aragorn and the other captains of Men decide to lead all who can march upon the Black Gate as a distraction, so Frodo and Sam can get to Mount Doom. Meanwhile, Gollum manipulates Frodo into leaving Sam behind before they arrive at the tunnel leading to Mordor, and then tricks him into lair of the giant spider Shelob, who paralyses and binds Frodo. Sam arrives and drives Shelob away, but believing his friend to be dead takes Frodo's sword Sting and The One Ring for safekeeping. When he sees Frodo's body being taken by Orcs to Cirith Ungol he realises that Frodo is still alive, and gives chase. Sam rescues Frodo from the Orcs, and returns the Ring to him. Aragorn's army draw out Sauron's forces and empty Mordor, allowing the exhausted Hobbits to stagger to the volcano, but they're attacked by Gollum when they reach Mount Doom. Frodo finally succumbs to the Ring's power and claims it as his own, and refuses to destroy it. Gollum attacks Frodo and bites his finger off to reclaim the Ring, but Frodo fights back and knocks Gollum, who is holding the Ring, into the volcano. While Frodo holds onto the ledge for dear life, Sam manages to save him and both escape the volcano at the last second. The Ring and Sauron are both destroyed, causing a chain- reaction that consumes the mountain, topples Barad- d. Gandalf flies in with eagles to rescue the Hobbits, who awaken later in Minas Tirith and are reunited with the surviving Fellowship members. Aragorn is crowned King of Gondor and takes Arwen as his queen. They, and all others present at his coronation, bow before Frodo and the Hobbits. The Hobbits then return to the Shire where Sam marries Rosie Cotton. Frodo, while happy for his friends, is unable to cope with the traumas of his journey, and departs Middle Earth for the Grey Havens with his uncle Bilbo, Gandalf, and the Elves. He leaves Sam the Red Book of Westmarch which details their adventures. Though saddened by Frodo's departure, Sam is gladdened by the warm welcome he receives upon returning home. Like the preceding films in the trilogy, The Return of the King has an ensemble cast. Rhys- Davies also voices Treebeard: the ent leader. Bernard Hill as Th. Makoare also plays Gothmog: an Orc commander, who is voiced by Craig Parker. Thomas Robins as D. Jackson also has another unofficial cameo, as Sam's hand stepping into view when he confronts Shelob. Jackson's children also cameo as Gondorian extras, while Christian Rivers played a Gondorian soldier guarding the Beacon Pippin lights, and is later seen wounded. Royd Tolkien cameos as a Ranger in Osgiliath. Additionally, four of the designers of The Lord of the Rings Strategy Battle Game are featured as Rohirrim at the Pelennor. Saruman's murder by Gr. In the film, Saruman drops the palant. Pippin's looking into the palant. In contrast to the film, Aragorn and Th. It is in the Hornburg where Aragorn looks into the Palant. In the film, Aragorn and The. In contrast to the book, the viewer doesn't get told what happened in Lebennin between Aragorn and the Corsairs of Umbar. The film version (Extended Edition) doesn't correspond with the map of Gondor, as the company sees a near river with Corsair ships immediately after leaving the Haunted Mountain, which is not possible since the Anduin lies several hundred miles farther east, and assuming that no Corsair ships sailed upstream any of the smaller rivers such as the Morthond. The basis of Elrond and Arwen's subplot arguing about Arwen's fate is derived from the Appendices, but it is largely extended in the film, as is Arwen and Elrond's relevance to the story. The muster of Gondor is absent from the film, and the major captains and generals, including Imrahil and the Knights of Dol Amroth, are not present. Denethor, the Steward of Gondor, was a more tragic character in the book. The film only focuses on his overwhelming grief over the death of Boromir as to ignore Sauron's threat (in the book he already lights the beacons, thus the sequence where Pippin lights them in secret is invented for the film), and is driven over the edge by Faramir's injury. The film only hints at his use of the palant. Aware of the very long distance between Rath D. The Battle of the Pelennor Fields is altered: Faramir never goes on a suicide mission, and the conflict is a simplification of the siege of Osgiliath. With generals such as Forlong and Imrahil absent, Gandalf commands the defence of Minas Tirith owing to Denethor's despair. While Denethor gives command to Gandalf in the book, in this film Gandalf forcibly takes control as Denethor tells the men to flee rather than fight. The Orcs and trolls also never get into the city in the book. The Witch- king enters and stands off against Gandalf before the Rohirrim arrive, but in the film Orcs invade the city after Grond breaks the Gate. The confrontation takes place while Gandalf journeys to save Faramir in the Extended Edition, during which Gandalf has his staff broken in the film (but not in the book). A subplot in which the Rohirrim are aided by the primitive Dr. The Red Arrow brought by a messenger from Gondor to ask for aid is absent. When hope seems lost, Gandalf comforts Pippin with a description of the Undying Lands, which is a descriptive passage in the book's final chapter. An unstoppable and invulnerable force, the Dead wipe out Sauron's forces. The film also cuts out several supporting characters, such as: Halbarad, a friend of Aragorn's, who helps lead the D. Elladan and Elrohir are replaced by Elrond in the film, instead delivering And. In the books Aragorn isn't doubtful about his destiny, but had already decided to claim the throne of Gondor from the beginning of the Quest; thus, it was him who had the shards of Narsil forged to And. In the book tactics are discussed, forces divide and fight smaller skirmishes in An. The romance that develops between . Frodo enters Shelob's lair alone in the film, whereas in the book he and Sam entered together. This was done to make the scene more horrific with Frodo being alone, and Sam's rescue at the last minute more dramatic. Frodo's ordeal in the Tower of Cirith Ungol and subsequent rescue by Sam are also changed; in the book, Frodo is stripped, beaten, and cruelly interrogated by the orcs, while in the film, he is tied up but only briefly threatened by an orc moments before Sam's arrival. The reunion of Frodo and Sam in the film is also shorter and less emotional than in the book; rather than comforting the physically injured and severely traumatized Frodo as in the book, Sam, after killing the orc that was threatening Frodo but had not struck him, briefly accepts his apology for having doubted him and returns the Ring to him before suggesting that they find some orc clothing for Frodo to wear. In the film, Sam also does not experience . Sam instead overcomes a very brief moment of temptation which, instead of stemming from thoughts of how he could use the Ring for himself, seems to come from his concern for Frodo and wish to reduce the Ring's harm to his friend by sharing the burden.
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