Middle-earth’s toughest hiking club. See the tee ↓ thefilmspoint.com/products/m…

The soldiers chanting "DEATH!" is really significant here. Eru originally gave death to humans as a gift, so they could enjoy their time on Arda. However, Morgoth twisted this, making man fear death, so they coveted the immortality of the elves. Here, they scream it out in defiance of Morgoth and his servants, saying they do not fear it, and that now Morgoth, Sauron, and the darkness they wield have no power over them.

There are so many reasons this ending is so perfect but the reason which really touches me is the fact that the story does not end with Frodo who is essentially the central character to the entire story. Frodo's journey is complete indeed by the end, but the final images are what Frodo wants to leave us with. It is not an image of everything he achieved for himself and his legacy, he ends his story in the joy and sense of closure that once he is gone, he has secured and ensured the happiness and livelihood of all those he set out to save. As if to say in his final moments, that's what allows him the final closure he needs, his loved ones are going on and so in spirit he shall with them.

This is the kind of movie that when you see more than two minutes, you want to finish the whole trilogy.

The gentleness and compassion in Viggo's delivery of the line "You bow to no one" makes it so much better. One of the best delivered lines in the trilogy,

The most beautiful universe of all.

The Council of Elrond might be the most underrated scene in the entire trilogy, and it's all because of Boromir. Everyone remembers the Black Speech, the darkening sky, Gandalf's voice cracking the room in half. But the real story of that scene is a good man quietly falling apart. The moment Frodo sets the ring down, Boromir is the first to speak. "So it is true." Two seconds, and the ring already has him. But here's what makes it tragic instead of villainous. Boromir never wanted it for himself. Watch his speech about Gondor. His father holding back Mordor for years, his people bleeding so everyone else's lands stay safe, and no one even thanking them for it. He's not greedy. He's desperate. He's a man who has watched his home fight alone for too long, and now someone puts a weapon on the table and tells him he can't use it. And listen to the music underneath. The second he speaks of Gondor, the horn theme plays quietly beneath him. Even while the ring is corrupting him, the score remembers who he really is. A man of Númenor. A protector. That's why the older you get, the more Boromir hits. As a kid you see the guy who tried to take the ring. As an adult you see the man carrying a weight nobody helped him carry, whose only real flaw was loving his people too much. He fails the test at the Council. But he dies with a horn to his lips defending two hobbits who couldn't defend themselves. The most human character in Middle-earth, start to finish