"The Return Of The King"
"The Return of the King"
2023
Thus came Aragorn son of Arathorn, Elessar, Isildur's heir, out of the Path's of the Dead, borne upon a wind from the Sea to the Kingdom of Gondor...
-"The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King", by J.R.R. Tolkien
2021 was the year of Fellowship of the Ring. 2022 was the year of Two Towers. And 2023 was the year of Return of the King. The final installment of the Lord of the Rings Trilogy, and not only my favorite of the three, but also my favorite film of all time. It features some of the most amazing, cathartic, emotional scenes of the whole saga, the grandest battle ever put to screen (Helm's Deep who?), and also my favorite villain (arguably also my favorite character) of the whole of Tolkien's legendarium in all his terrifying majesty. Happily Return of the King is also not only the most awarded of the three films, but one of the most awarded films in history ever. I well remember watching that Oscar ceremony as a kid and how surreal it was to have the presenters open the envelope and read aloud "Lord of the Rings" again and again. T'was a good night.
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