Releasing on 2003, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King is a fantasy adventure movie that was made based on 1955’s The Return of The King (written by J. R. R. Tolkien). The film was directed by Peter Jackson. This movie is a part of three verse film of The Lord of The Rings. Though the movie was sponsored and apportioned by New Line Cinema, it was edited and shot in New Zealand with the other two parts of the trilogy. A few famous faces in the movie are John Rhys-Davies, Elijah Wood, Viggo Mortensen, Sean Astin, Ian McKellen, etc.
In this chapter, continuing the previous phase of the movie, Frodo, Sam, and Gollum, three fellow hobbits, make their final way toward Mount Doom in Mordor. Their aim was to destroy the One Ring. Later they joined forces with Pippin, Gimli, Gandalf, Legolas, Aragorn, and Merry to fight against Sauron and his army in Minas Tirith.
The reason behind Frodo’s leaving Shire
At the end of The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, Frodo finally decides that he is going to leave the Shire. In the movie, after Frodo destroys the ring and defeats Sauron, he gets a job as a Deputy Mayor in the Shire. But soon, he realized his time in the Shire was over. He was going to leave Middle-earth for Vanilor. Frodo described the main reason behind him leaving the Shire was all the injuries he received during the fight. And he was not recovered from that yet, which means he could not leave happily on Middle-earth.
In Return of the King, when Frodo was finishing up the memoir, he claimed, “There are some things that time cannot repair, some hurts that go too deep.” Frodo experiences the pain from the war every anniversary, and he also said he thinks he can not get over the pain that he received in The Lord of The Rings. For which, he decided to move on.
The wounds that Frodo received were when Witch-king stabbed him on his shoulder while trying to use the Ring to hide from the Ringwraiths. Another one he received a year later when Frodo and Samwise Gamgee were on their way to Mondor through tunnels. They had a petrifying face-off with a giant spider called Shelob.
Except for these, Frodo also faced much mental pain, which forced him to think of leaving the Shire for Vanilor, which would finally give him the peace that he wanted. After they (Frodo, Sam, Merry, and Pippin) were back from the war, they had a completely different way of thinking about life and their home. All of them had sadness in their eyes, peculiarly Frodo’s. The reason was a feeling of emptiness inside with persisting memories of what they had faced. Frodo felt like he could not get used to his old life, things that he had done a couple of thousand times.
Because of all of these, in the end, Frodo is seen on an Elven ship beside Bilbo Baggins, Gandalf, and others. The ship leaves the Grey Havens and sets off towards the Undying Lands (Vanilor, a special place outside of Middle-earth that is only welcome to immortals and Ring-bearers).
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