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The Return of the King

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The Return of the King	comment	The third film in a loose trilogy of animated films based on J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth stories, The Return of the King is Rankin-Bass's adaptation of the third The Lord of the Rings volume of the same name. The film serves as a follow-up to their earlier adaptation of The Hobbit, and as a conclusion of sorts to the Ralph Bakshi adaptation of The Lord of the Rings, which covered The Fellowship of the Ring and most of The Two Towersnote due to where Bakshi's film leaves off, if you try to use this film as the conclusion to the story, the difference between the two involves a major "cut", jumping from the end of the Battle of Helm's Deep to the Siege of Minas Tirith, with no explanation of how Gandalf and Pippin got there, as well as the encounter with Shelob being excised, with Frodo suddenly a prisoner of orcs.
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The Return of the King / int_10dafb12	type	Flaming Sword
The Return of the King / int_10dafb12	comment	Flaming Sword: The Witch-King enflames his sword when facing off against Gandalf. During Sam's Imagine Spot while the One Ring is tempting him, he envisions himself wielding a burning sword.
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The Return of the King / int_117b3429	type	A Taste of the Lash
The Return of the King / int_117b3429	comment	A Taste of the Lash: The orcs sing a song about how much they hate being whipped.
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The Return of the King / int_125e12c4	type	Second-Hand Storytelling
The Return of the King / int_125e12c4	comment	Second-Hand Storytelling: All action taken from The Return of the King is described as a series of Flashbacks.
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The Return of the King / int_13f38f53	type	Evolutionary Retcon
The Return of the King / int_13f38f53	comment	Evolutionary Retcon: Aside from the Stock Footage of Thranduil from The Hobbit, the appearance of the Elves has been revised to have them looking much more like humans (as one can tell from Legolas' few appearances).
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The Return of the King / int_14beeefd	type	Darker and Edgier
The Return of the King / int_14beeefd	comment	Darker and Edgier: In spite of the Disneyfication, it is this compared to The Hobbit. The main duo are in constant danger of either being captured, discovered by the enemy or being Driven to Madness by the Ring. A war is shown in more detail with both sides taking noticeable deaths. And the tone has a more dismal and hopeless feel to it for most of the runtime.
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The Return of the King / int_1a303edf	type	Our Orcs Are Different
The Return of the King / int_1a303edf	comment	Our Orcs Are Different: Visually, they look noticeably different from the Goblins in The Hobbit, a case of Art Shift. A few of the old-style goblins are mixed in, suggesting this is simply a more diverse force. The diversity of their builds is actually a plot point at one point: This version of the orcs has so many odd builds that an orc slavedriver mistook Frodo and Sam for orcs even up close. Thematically, they differ significantly from the "standard" Tolkien-inspired orcs in that they're more clearly Punch-Clock Villains rather than Always Chaotic Evil - there were hints of this in Tolkien, but the movie is much more explicit about it, even giving them a song about how they don't want to go to war but are being forced to by the Dark Lord.
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The Return of the King / int_1ccad9a3	type	Villain Song
The Return of the King / int_1ccad9a3	comment	Villain Song: Of the Punch-Clock Villain variety. "Where There's A Whip There's A Way", all about orcs forced to march into battle. "The Towers of the Teeth" is all about how the forces of the Shadow have the forces of the Light exactly where they want 'em.
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The Return of the King / int_1e1afc1b	type	Framing Device
The Return of the King / int_1e1afc1b	comment	Framing Device: In Rivendell, Frodo and Gandalf have commissioned the Troubador of Gondor to sing the ballad of "Frodo of the Nine Fingers and the Ring of Doom" to Bilbo and Elrond.
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The Return of the King / int_20860a0e	type	Punch-Clock Villain
The Return of the King / int_20860a0e	comment	Of the Punch-Clock Villain variety. "Where There's A Whip There's A Way", all about orcs forced to march into battle.
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The Return of the King / int_25a31943	type	Slave Mooks
The Return of the King / int_25a31943	comment	Downplayed. The song, "Where There's A Whip, There's A Way" basically says that they fight because they're being made to, not because they want to. This suggests that only the higher-ranking orc officers are truly malicious and evil, whereas the rank and file are brutalized slaves.
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The Return of the King / int_264a140b	type	Fat and Skinny
The Return of the King / int_264a140b	comment	Fat and Skinny: The four hobbits form two such pairs — Sam is fat and Frodo is skinny, and Merry is fat and Pippin is skinny.
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The Return of the King / int_26eb6287	type	Funny Background Event
The Return of the King / int_26eb6287	comment	Funny Background Event: During the Breaking of the Gate, one of the orc drummers is shown with a huge, joyous smile, as if his life's purpose were being fulfilled.
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The Return of the King / int_33d5b7f2	type	Adapted Out
The Return of the King / int_33d5b7f2	comment	Adapted Out: Due to large portions of The Two Towers being skipped over, Shelob does not appear despite being hinted at by Gollum at the end of Ralph Bakshi's The Lord of the Rings, although we do see a few webs in the tunnel. Likewise, Frodo's mithril shirt is absent from the film.
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The Return of the King / int_3a88a563	type	Vocal Dissonance
The Return of the King / int_3a88a563	comment	Vocal Dissonance: The Witch-King shows up using the Black Tongue, and appearing as a silent and very frightening figure for the most part. Then he appears to Gandalf and sounds like a mix of Starscream and Skeletor, and intimidation is quickly forgotten.
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The Return of the King / int_3bc88a7f	type	Foregone Conclusion
The Return of the King / int_3bc88a7f	comment	Foregone Conclusion: Unlike the book, the movie begins with Frodo narrating the events at the 129th birthday celebration of Bilbo Baggins, accompanied by Sam and Gandalf, already revealing that all of them survived this adventure...but not quite unscathed, as Bilbo notices his missing finger while he's lighting a pipe.
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The Return of the King / int_3cb1d38d	type	Bad Boss
The Return of the King / int_3cb1d38d	comment	Bad Boss: The Lord of the Lash, who whips his orc troops, forcing them to march into battle.
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The Return of the King / int_4832a3bb	type	Always Chaotic Evil
The Return of the King / int_4832a3bb	comment	Always Chaotic Evil: Downplayed. The song, "Where There's A Whip, There's A Way" basically says that they fight because they're being made to, not because they want to. This suggests that only the higher-ranking orc officers are truly malicious and evil, whereas the rank and file are brutalized slaves. During a Dream Sequence where the destruction of the ring is portrayed as an easy job, Frodo imagines himself and Sam encountering a troop of Orcs while smoking. Both parties wave amicably and go their separate ways, implying that Frodo believes there's some good in them and it's only Sauron's influence that makes them the way they are (this is rather in line with Tolkien's worldview, where nobody's unremittingly, irredeemably evil).
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The Return of the King / int_48b9731f	type	Paper-Thin Disguise
The Return of the King / int_48b9731f	comment	Paper-Thin Disguise: Sam and Frodo are half the size of orcs, have radically different skin tones, hair tones, and facial structures, lack horns, fangs, and cat-like eyes, and have their hairy hobbit feet plainly visible, but if they're wearing orc armor it's convincing enough for the slavedriver. Of course, it's possible that considering how varied the real orcs are in this version, he might have just thought they were scrawny.
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The Return of the King / int_48dfb7e4	type	Stock Sound Effects
The Return of the King / int_48dfb7e4	comment	Stock Sound Effects: The Witch-King's ride oddly makes random cries of various monsters from Ultraman. (Rankin-Bass had worked with Ultraman's producers, Tsuburaya Productions, on some live-action projects in the 1970s, which may explain how they were used here.)
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The Return of the King / int_49d59be9	type	Scenery Porn
The Return of the King / int_49d59be9	comment	Scenery Porn: The backgrounds and establishing shots are gorgeous and highly detailed, fitting the storybook nature of the plot. Mordor never looked so terrifyingly beautiful.
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The Return of the King / int_512b00e0	type	BSoD Song
The Return of the King / int_512b00e0	comment	BSoD Song: Subverted with ''Leave Tommorrow Till it Comes," which is sung at a point where Sam and Frodo have fallen down a hole and are too exhausted to get out. Sam lets out a desperate prayer to the Valar for help, while Frodo falls into a nightmare-haunted sleep that gradually eases into a dream of a happier future. The song is about the futility of worrying about tommorrow.
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The Return of the King / int_53f5119f	type	The Dragon
The Return of the King / int_53f5119f	comment	The Dragon: The Witch-King is the chief servant of Sauron and his lead field commander.
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The Return of the King / int_547196be	type	Broad Strokes
The Return of the King / int_547196be	comment	Broad Strokes: The dialogue is surprisingly accurate, though.
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The Return of the King / int_5663a595	type	Adaptation-Induced Plot Hole
The Return of the King / int_5663a595	comment	Adaptation-Induced Plot Hole: Comes up a few times thanks to Compressed Adaptation. Somehow the orcs manage to lose everything important Frodo had on him. In the book, Sam takes Sting and the Ring, before the orcs find his body. The orcs fighting over Frodo's cloak (that they don't even have) stretches disbelief. In the book, they're fighting over his mithril shirt, which they have and is sufficiently valuable to warrant such a brawl. Somehow, the battle of the Pelennor Fields drags on for several days, long enough for Frodo and Sam to reach Mt. Doom. For all his power, Sauron somehow misses Frodo putting on the One Ring in the heart of his stronghold for several days! In the book and the Jackson films, Sauron notices immediately and promptly sends the Ringwraiths towards Mt. Doom.
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The Return of the King / int_5a08d0ae	type	Back Stab
The Return of the King / int_5a08d0ae	comment	By Merry when he Back Stabs the Witch-King; just after It smashes Eowyn's shield to flinders.
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The Return of the King / int_5a23602	type	Big Ol' Eyebrows
The Return of the King / int_5a23602	comment	Big Ol' Eyebrows: Sam has a pair of these (they're mainly what differentiates him from Merry), as well as Gandalf whose unibrow had already been seen in The Hobbit.
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The Return of the King / int_603f1a80	type	Pragmatic Adaptation
The Return of the King / int_603f1a80	comment	Pragmatic Adaptation: Made for TV after the failure of Ralph Bakshi's The Lord of the Rings by a completely different studio. It attempts to adapt the work, with no reference to the previous two titles, which results in a very disjointed effort. But individual scenes like Ã‰owyn's confrontation with the Witch-King are adapted almost word for word from the book. At the end of the piece, Gandalf asserts that the Hobbits will grow taller with each generation and merge with the race of Men. This is not a Tolkien-derived idea, but purely from the scriptwriter.
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The Return of the King / int_615fdb1f	type	Dream Sequence
The Return of the King / int_615fdb1f	comment	During a Dream Sequence where the destruction of the ring is portrayed as an easy job, Frodo imagines himself and Sam encountering a troop of Orcs while smoking. Both parties wave amicably and go their separate ways, implying that Frodo believes there's some good in them and it's only Sauron's influence that makes them the way they are (this is rather in line with Tolkien's worldview, where nobody's unremittingly, irredeemably evil).
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The Return of the King / int_64f3ea6e	type	Disneyfication
The Return of the King / int_64f3ea6e	comment	Disneyfication: Compared to the original text, there is more of an attempt to include musical numbers with mixed results, light-hearted scenes, a brief dream sequence of orcs being friendly to Sam and Frodo, and the violence is toned down from the original material.
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The Return of the King / int_66faa669	type	Silence, You Fool!
The Return of the King / int_66faa669	comment	Silence, You Fool!: Aragorn, when he and his army arrive at the gates of Gondor.
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The Return of the King / int_68068108	type	Evil Laugh
The Return of the King / int_68068108	comment	Evil Laugh: The Mouth of Sauron delivers one when he returns to Mordor. The Witch-King has a pretty good one as well. Frodo has an absolutely chilling one when he gives into the temptation of the Ring.
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The Return of the King / int_69dfa613	type	Cephalothorax
The Return of the King / int_69dfa613	comment	Visually, they look noticeably different from the Goblins in The Hobbit, a case of Art Shift. A few of the old-style goblins are mixed in, suggesting this is simply a more diverse force. The diversity of their builds is actually a plot point at one point: This version of the orcs has so many odd builds that an orc slavedriver mistook Frodo and Sam for orcs even up close.
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The Return of the King / int_6f19f5e0	type	Unusual Halo
The Return of the King / int_6f19f5e0	comment	Unusual Halo: The elf mage Elrond has a halo of sparklies circling his head just above eyebrow level. His home at Rivendell goes unmolested by the Nazgul while Frodo and the One Ring are there.
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The Return of the King / int_72a3f091	type	Giant Eye of Doom
The Return of the King / int_72a3f091	comment	Giant Eye of Doom: This is the first instance of making the Great Eye a physical thing. In the book, it's more of a metaphor and symbol for Sauron's power. While it's still used in that capacity (the Shadow's emblem is a red-rimmed, red-irised, black-sclera'd eye shooting a trio of Eye Beams), when we see Barad-DÃ»r, it's surmounted by a disturbingly well-detailed flaming eyeball that looks like a second sun.
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The Return of the King / int_7315fd38	type	Covers Always Lie
The Return of the King / int_7315fd38	comment	Covers Always Lie: The DVD cover◊ only seems to vaguely represent the film's contents, if it indeed represents them at all. It features two generic chubby hobbits, neither of which look quite like Samwise or Merry, let alone Frodo or Pippin. They are riding on a horse, despite the fact that there is no scene featuring hobbits riding horses (only significantly smaller ponies). Also prominently featured are two dwarves who do not appear in the film at all, and do not clearly resemble any of the dwarves who appeared in The Hobbit either, although one of them does resemble Grumpy. In the background are two vaguely-portrayed palace-like structures — one light and one dark — that clearly do not resemble Minas Tirith, Cirith Ungol, Barad-dÃ»r or the Black Gate which appear in the film. All in all, the cover looks like it was drawn by someone who really hasn't seen the film or read the books at all but merely slapped something random together with short people, dwarves, knights, castles and a dragon.
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The Return of the King / int_794f3589	type	Adaptation Explanation Extrication
The Return of the King / int_794f3589	comment	Adaptation Explanation Extrication: Why Gollum is calling Frodo master goes unexplained in the film if you didn't see the previous one. The Phial of Galadriel shows up with no explanation to where it came from aside from Frodo giving the name and claiming he can't say anything more. In the book its simply one of Galadriel's gifts, something cut from Ralph Bakshi's The Lord of the Rings The reason why the Mouth of Sauron show up is left unexplained in the film due to the scene being truncated to him appearing them being sent off. In the book he's acting on Sauron's orders, taunting them with the knowledge they have one of the hobbits in captivity and purposing extreme terms of surrender that are rejected.
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The Return of the King / int_80251be3	type	How We Got Here
The Return of the King / int_80251be3	comment	How We Got Here: To Bilbo's birthday party? And how did Frodo lose a finger?
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The Return of the King / int_81867cc	type	Warning Song
The Return of the King / int_81867cc	comment	Warning Song: "The Bearer of the Ring," which is about a certain evil, circular MacGuffin that's trying to corrupt everyone who handles it.
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The Return of the King / int_823c6e3e	type	Large Ham
The Return of the King / int_823c6e3e	comment	Large Ham: Roddy McDowall as Sam. Good grief, Roddy McDowall as Sam. As well as Gandalf, Denethor, and well over half the cast. Particularly entertaining is Gandalf and Denethor's epic Ham-to-Ham Combat in Denethor's suicide scene, some of which is verbatim from the book.
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The Return of the King / int_82a64c4b	type	Adaptational Nice Guy
The Return of the King / int_82a64c4b	comment	Adaptational Nice Guy: While the Mouth of Sauron is still definitely one of the villains, he doesn't taunt Aragorn over Frodo's supposed capture/death here.
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The Return of the King / int_8338de89	type	"I Want" Song
The Return of the King / int_8338de89	comment	"I Want" Song: Subverted, it's an "I DON'T want" song. "Less can be More" is about rejecting the delusions of grandeur the Ring invokes because Sam already has everything he needs to be happy.
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The Return of the King / int_86ae1278	type	Adaptational Dumbass
The Return of the King / int_86ae1278	comment	Adaptational Dumbass: After the Ring is destroyed and Sauron's forces break their assault at the Black Gate, Aragorn asks Gandalf what happened, as if he does not know about Frodo's quest to destroy the ring.
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The Return of the King / int_9c45b5a2	type	What Measure Is a Non-Human?
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The Return of the King / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: "Begone and trouble me no more! You ever touch me again, you shall be cast yourself into the fire of Doom!" The Ring is speaking to Gollum through Frodo. Later, when Gollum does get his hands back on the Ring, both he and it plummet into the lava.
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The Return of the King / int_a68421bb	type	Animated Adaptation
The Return of the King / int_a68421bb	comment	Animated Adaptation: Of the last part of The Lord of the Rings. It has its own interesting history as it's technically the sequel of the Ralph Bakshi's work, which covered the previous two books before several issues led to that production being left unfinished and Rankin-Bass completed the adaptation of the last book, even though it differs from the previous movie in both tone and art style.
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The Return of the King / int_a6a68db3	type	Humble Goal
The Return of the King / int_a6a68db3	comment	Humble Goal: Sam wants to get the quest done so he can go home and marry his girlfriend. This is also how he beats the Ring: it can only get to him through his Call to Agriculture, since he's quite content otherwise. His "I Want" Song points this out
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The Return of the King / int_a7382a73	comment	During Sam's Imagine Spot while the One Ring is tempting him, he envisions himself wielding a burning sword.
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The Return of the King / int_a91078ea	type	Adaptational Jerkass
The Return of the King / int_a91078ea	comment	Adaptational Jerkass: Aragorn displays none of the wisdom of his book counterpart. After winning the battle for Pelennor Fields, he declares to take the war to Sauron, intending to try to defeat him by force of arms, despite Gandalf's protests. The Aragorn from the books was fully aware this was folly and only did so to buy Frodo time to destroy the Ring.
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The Return of the King / int_a969c74a	comment	Final Solution: Sam's Final Temptation, in which he conquers Mordor and turns it into a vast garden, includes turning the Orcs there into apparently non-sapient animals and it feels chillingly like genocide.
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The Return of the King / int_b09bf442	comment	Whip of Dominance: As Frodo and Sam make their way across Mordor, they encounter an army of Slave Mooks Orcs singing a marching song "Where There's a Whip, There's a Way" note Which is based on a similar quote from the source material "Where there's a whip, there's a will". The lyrics have the orcs lamenting that they don't want to march off to battle but their commander's whip, which cracks at the end of each line, compels them forward. At one point they even refer to themselves as the slaves of the Dark Lord. While the song is very goofy, it serves to illustrate the oppressive hierarchy of orc society.
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The Return of the King / int_b680713e	comment	Melancholy Musical Number: It's so Easy not to Try, which is about how just drifting through life sounds easy, but is mere survival; as opposed to the rich life that comes from facing adversity and making friends.
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The Return of the King / int_b72923df	comment	The Final Temptation: Sam is tempted to claim the ring, lead an army to claim the Dark Tower for his own, and turn Mordor into a vast garden paradise.note Actually based on a scene in the book! "Hail, Samwise The Strong! The sun shines for thee alone!" Frodo's confrontation in the Cracks of Doom is drawn out, stretching and deforming the timeline quite a bit, since he apparently claims the ring and wanders around Mount Doom for quite awhile while the story proceeds. Oddly, it's portrayed as a disaster if Sam should put on the ring in sight of Mount Doom (as in the book) but Frodo can do so and all that happens is the quest gets derailed with Sam wandering around the inside of the volcano looking for him! (The book makes perfectly clear that Sauron becomes aware of the Ring's location as soon as Frodo puts it on, but Barad-Dur is some distance ...variously estimated at 10 to 30 miles ... from Orodruin and even Sauron can only move so fast.) "BEHOLD! THE GARDENS OF MY DELIGHT!!" Aww... Dark Lord Samwise is so cute.
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The Return of the King / int_b8e3f20a	type	Demoted to Extra
The Return of the King / int_b8e3f20a	comment	Demoted to Extra: Legolas and Gimli do appear very briefly in a few scenes one being in Aragon's flashback, a few shots during the battle scenes, and can be seen during the parade, neither of them have any lines. For that matter, Aragorn has less than a dozen spoken lines either, and he's the title character. Eomer only appears as a voiceless background character. Faramir also appears right at the end with no explanation.
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The Return of the King / int_c02925f0	comment	Wingding Eyes: Frodo's animesque eyes (even larger than Elijah Wood's) go from Chibi to scary when he wields the Power of The Ring, causing him to appear tall and brightly lit, Saiyan-style, and the pupils of his eyes become flames! This is a slight exaggeration from the book, where Frodo does indeed appear to grow into a powerful figure (like Galadriel and Gandalf in the live-action films) when asserting control over Gollum.
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The Return of the King / int_c2cedc1c	type	Big "NO!"
The Return of the King / int_c2cedc1c	comment	Big "NO!": By Merry when he Back Stabs the Witch-King; just after It smashes Eowyn's shield to flinders. By Sam when he rejects the Ring's influence, and again when it claims Frodo. Nearly every other character says "Nay" rather than "No".
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The Return of the King / int_c4286511	comment	For Doom the Bell Tolls: The Cracks of Doom
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The Return of the King / int_cdfe12c3	comment	Nothing Is Scarier: Sauron outside of being described as the Big Bad of the conflict, never makes a physical appearance and only his eye, that looks more like an eerie version of the sun appears. Making him more ominous and foreboding.
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The Return of the King / int_ce6555f0	type	Lighter and Softer
The Return of the King / int_ce6555f0	comment	Lighter and Softer: In comparison with the book and the previous adaptation of The Lord of the Rings done by Ralph Bakshi. The cruelty of the orcs, for example, has been toned down significantly and whenever characters, even orcs, die, it is never another character who kills them. They almost always die by falling.
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The Return of the King / int_d500b978	type	Adaptational Wimp
The Return of the King / int_d500b978	comment	Adaptational Wimp: Denethor appears as a decrepit and crazed old man. In the books, he was described as a wise lord, who appeared almost as wizardly as Gandalf and only went mad after enduring too much pressure. In this film, only his downfall is seen.
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The Return of the King / int_db08a39d	comment	Animesque: Virtually all the animators and one of the two character designers were Japanese, so this may actually be more half-Anime than pseudo-Anime Animesque.
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The Return of the King / int_dbfd6b8	comment	Lyrical Dissonance: The line about Bilbo's enemies knowing "the power of the hobbit and his Ring" is accompanied by an image of a terrified Bilbo falling into an abyss.
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The Return of the King / int_df410b77	type	Decoy Protagonist
The Return of the King / int_df410b77	comment	Decoy Protagonist: While the Lord of the Rings books put the main focus on Frodo Baggins, the animated adaptation instead puts the main focus on Samwise's perspective, making his decisions the ones that drive the story.
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The Return of the King / int_e542d80a	comment	Gonk: Pippin has an unusual character design completely different from any other hobbit. He's the tallest of the hobbits, and he looks sort of like Lupin III if Lupin looked even more like a monkey than he already does.
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The Return of the King / int_eac7bacb	comment	Gratuitous Disco Sequence: Orcs groove out to the funky bass riffs of "Where There's a Whip There's a Way". Lampshaded: "I can't! I can't continue!" — "I'd rather be singin' a good old hobbit song myself..."
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The Return of the King / int_eb0df85e	type	Ham-to-Ham Combat
The Return of the King / int_eb0df85e	comment	As well as Gandalf, Denethor, and well over half the cast. Particularly entertaining is Gandalf and Denethor's epic Ham-to-Ham Combat in Denethor's suicide scene, some of which is verbatim from the book.
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The Return of the King / int_eb81c601	type	Big Damn Heroes
The Return of the King / int_eb81c601	comment	Big Damn Heroes: A couple of instances, most notable being when the Rohan army arrives, naturally, at the single most dramatically appropriate moment to save the day. Aragorn's arrival is actually more badass in this version since it looks like he routs the evil army just by showing up.
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The Return of the King / int_eff83d77	comment	Mundane Utility: Sam uses Sting as a rudimentary torch while searching for Frodo at the Crack of Doom.
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The Return of the King / int_f03b3825	comment	Thematically, they differ significantly from the "standard" Tolkien-inspired orcs in that they're more clearly Punch-Clock Villains rather than Always Chaotic Evil - there were hints of this in Tolkien, but the movie is much more explicit about it, even giving them a song about how they don't want to go to war but are being forced to by the Dark Lord.
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