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The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

Reviewed on 07/31/07       Plays: 7

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Hi. My name is Jennifer and today I'm gonna talk to you about J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings Part Three: The Return of the King and this is the third and final book in the trilogy and I've said before most people recognize these books now. If they're not there are just fans in general because the movies came out the trilogy in the past decade and it was just incredible the movies where that come out. And so the books are just so much even more in depth and detailed and beautiful and just inspiring than the movies even themselves especially if you've seen the movies. I think they did a pretty good job especially with special effects just bringing the books to life and so if you have seen the movies and you haven't read the books when you read the books it just -- you get those pictures from the movies in your head but there are so much more detail that you just add to it and it just gets better and better. And so it's just about Frodo finally being able to destroy the ring and saving Middle Earth and so this is The Lord of the Rings Part Three: The Return of the King by J.R.R. Tolkien.

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

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This final chapter of Peter Jackson's sprawling adaptation of Tolkien's "Ring" trilogy closes out one of the most accomplished cycles in cinema--and film music--history. As he's done for the saga's first two installments, composer Howard Shore has honed a mature, brooding orchestral masterpiece...

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This final chapter of Peter Jackson's sprawling adaptation of Tolkien's "Ring" trilogy closes out one of the most accomplished cycles in cinema--and film music--history. As he's done for the saga's first two installments, composer Howard Shore has honed a mature, brooding orchestral masterpiece that's long on subtle shadings of mood and nuance, while eschewing the hollow bombast that's characterized all too many mainstream action and adventure films for three decades. If anything, he's pared this chapter of his music for Middle Earth even closer to the bone, the trilogy's familiar themes repeated with a sparing hand that only heightens their dramatic power. Like Herrmann before him, Shore has a preternatural understanding of orchestral timbres and their almost mystical connections with human emotions, and he's used it here to close out this remarkable trilogy with Wagnerian dramatic sweep, yet one with a distinctly modern, understated melodic sense that is Shore's alone. James Galway and Renee Fleming make key instrumental and vocal contributions, respectively, while Annie Lennox's soulful "Into the West" makes the expected, if unobtrusive, bow to the theatrical pop song conventions. -- Jerry McCulley
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