We're thrilled to announce that The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King is returning to Cineworld cinemas. The natural home of Peter Jackson's extraordinary fantasy saga is the big screen, and the epic conclusion to the trilogy is showing as it turns 20 years old.
To incentivise you, we've rounded up three memorable scenes that are sure to blow you away all over again.
1. Shelob's lair
Peter Jackson returns to his horror roots a la Braindead for this skin-crawling sequence. An acknowledged arachnophobe, Jackson went to town to depict the fearsome Shelob, the giant spider that bars hobbit Frodo Baggins (Elijah Wood) from entering Mordor to destroy the One Ring.
Once again, the photorealistic CGI merges beautifully with the close-up practical effects and sets. However, the scene truly resonates because of how invested we are in Frodo's struggle.
2. The road to Minas Tirith
As the trilogy progresses, the destinies of various characters begin to diverge. After he makes the mistake of looking into a Palantir, exposing himself to the evil Sauron, hobbit Peregrin Took (Billy Boyd) is emboldened with a new purpose.
Gandalf then takes him to the multi-tiered city of Minas Tirith, a marvel of gleaming white architecture that takes the breath away. The fluid camerawork that carries us up the various layers, combined with Howard Shore's commanding score, lifts us out of our humdrum reality and into an astonishing world of new possibilities.
3. The Battle of the Pelennor Fields
Just as Fellowship was a dry run for The Two Towers, so is the latter a mere warm-up act for Return of the King's astonishing centrepiece battle. Various factions converge on the Pelennor fields beneath Minas Tirth for a defining clash between good and evil.
The scale and ambition of Jackon's achievement is perhaps more obvious here than anywhere else in the trilogy. He indeed achieved what many thought impossible: not only adapting a dense and multi-layered novel but adding fresh texture and breaking down cinematic boundaries to craft a fully-realised world.
Click the link below to book your tickets for The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King. The movie returns to Cineworld on September 28th.
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