The "angelic appearance", which may not make sense to many, is that of Annatar, the form and persona Sauron took during the Second Age to befriend many of the elves and coax them into forging the Rings of Power.

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Goodie, on to the sift I say. "Aragorn", though. ;-)

And it became one of the greatest moments in the trilogy. I still get misty-eyed when Aragorn turns and just says "for Frodo...".

Normally I hate when the change movies from the book... But I felt the end of Return of the King was a letdown. After the kickass final battle of The Two Towers, I was expecting (as someone who hadn't read the books) something epic at the end of the third movie. Didn't really care for what I did get.

Don't get me wrong, overall it's a beautiful story, but it wasn't the epic end I was expecting to a 9 hour (more if you watch the special editions) movie. I never read the book in the first place, so I wouldn't have been disappointed if there was a final battle with Sauron. I was kinda disappointed not to get it.

At one point I felt the same, BP. I had not read the books, but I knew the basic premise of the story. By the time ROTK was out, I had pried enough information out of my LOTR-nerd friends to know there was no giant glorious battle against Sauron at the end, but I was hoping he'd at least make a (pseudo-)menacing appearance, even if he was obviously weak.

But after seeing FOTR and TTT I no longer felt the big final battle was necessary. I understood that it wasn't what the story was about. It's a sombre story about sacrifice, not an action flick.

I did think the climb up Mt Doom and the destruction of the ring was stretched rather thin, "like butter scraped over too much bread." Of course that's the moment the entire 9 hours was building to, so yes, it had to be dramatic, but it wasn't. It just plain dragged on.

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