Return Of The King Movie--did it make you cry at the end?
By pyewacket
@pyewacket (43903)
United States
April 6, 2007 3:09am CST
If it hadn't been for Peter Jackson, I would never been inspired to read the Lord Of The RIngs all over again seeing that I hadn't read the books since I was in high school and that was a long, long time ago in a galaxy far, far away..and oops wrong story--LOL---I loved the movies and each on had perhaps sad scenes in them...but none brought sadder emotions than Return Of The King, the third and final movie. Yes there were other tearjerker moments, like when the two exhausted Hobbits, Frodo and Sam are so close to Mount Doom to finally get rid of the ring..but Frodo is near death...and Sam says..."Then let's be done with it, once and for all...I can't carry it for you...but I can carry you." Yes, that was a sad point...but what really turned on the tears was the very end...when Frodo is leaving not only The Shire, but Middle Earth to go Into The West..never to return, never to see the Shire again, never to go to the Green Dragon again, never to see Sam, Merry and Pippin ever again...I just couldn't stop crying..not even now after all this time...I even cry when I listen to the soundtrack and it reaches that point of farewells
So...........did Return of the King make you cry as well...or am I just a wimp?
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5 responses
@emeraldisle (13138)
• United States
6 Apr 07
If you are a wimp then so am I. I cry every time I watch it. Not as much as the first time obviously but even after several times my eyes get a bit wet. It's a powerful scene with a lot of emotions. With the group leaving and those left behind. The ending of a time and the beginning of another. There's a lot going on in that short span.
@lafavorito (2959)
• Philippines
7 Apr 07
While Frodo and Sam managed to destroy the Ring, it still is sad to separate the two of them. Seeing Frodo get aboard the Elves' boat waving to Sam, Merry & Pippin broke my heart because they grew so close but Frodo knows that he have to go because he's sick. Ohh.. I feel sad just thinking about it.. :(
@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
8 Apr 07
There's one thing that does bother me about that scene though--why wasn't Frodo crying himself--he's leaving Middle Earth, his friends everyone he knows--instead while he's standing on the boat, he turns around around and simply smiles--didn't make sense to me
@GnosticGoddess (5626)
• United States
6 Apr 07
Oh it makes me cry too!! So if your a wimp so am I. LOL
Jackson did a great job on the movies. He really captured the moments to perfection - as well as the actors :)
I actually had never read the books until last year or maybe the year before last. I was completely fascinated by them! Just watching the movies made me want to read the books. And I'm glad I did. My best friend even convinced me to read The Hobbit. I wasn't a fan of Bilbo so I was relucent. But I'm gland that I did. It was good too.
@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
6 Apr 07
I'm not a great fan of The Hobbit either, but I found out that to understand what was going on in the Lord of the rings story you really had to read it--Yes Jackson did a superb job of interpreting the book into movie format--of course there are Tolkien fanatics that think he murdered the stories--yet from what I heard he often consulted the actor Christopher Lee, who not only is a LOTR fan, reads the books every year, he actually know JRR Tolkien--and from what I understand, C. Lee gave PJ his seal of approval of how the movies were done
@ElicBxn (64169)
• United States
6 Apr 07
I think you are just very sensative. I've always been pretty hard to stir & I got dewy eyed at that point. Mostly because he was leaving his friends, never even got all the other stuff, mostly leaving Sam. But, I was also sad that the elves were leaving too. I had to explain to someone that really it was fitting that Frodo left with them. He had been so radically changed from the other hobbits he was nearly not a hobbit anymore. It was the Ring that had done it to him. Just like Bilbo had to finally leave the Shire to live with the elves, Frodo had to leave. It was both best for him and for the Shire.
@vwlssknght (653)
• United States
10 Apr 07
I did. The line that sticks out in my mind is Frodo asking himself, "How do you pick up the threads of a life?" That haunts me.
