This year marks 20 years and almost a full day since The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King hit screens. The saga, which brought JRR Tolkien’s iconic work to live-action cinema for the first time, has come to an end after three films and 14 and a half months of filming.
That’s why when Elijah Wood, Frodo Baggins’ interpreter, films his final scene in all three films, the set is filled with emotion. Even though he already has everything he needs in the box, director Peter Jackson keeps repeating the scene because he can’t bear to say the simple words.Cut!“Which will end filming in over a year:
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As Jackson says in this excerpt from Making Saga:
We just said goodbye to Frodo Baggins. We have a feeling that we have gone to gray shelters. So it really is the end of an era. Another sad day.
Gray shelters is the title of the last chapter of the last novel Lord of the Rings. This is the place where the elves go when they want to go to the undead lands, also called the “Blessed Realm” and located in the “Far West”. A kind of symbolic paradise of Tolkien’s world.
When Peter Jackson chooses to go to the Gray Havens, it should be emphasized that the adventure is over, just like Gandalf and Frodo, who go to the Gray Havens at the end of the novel. The scene of their departure is also presented in the film:
Travel to Gray’s Asylums
Even if the video shows the last scene of Elijah Wood on the main shoot, the three films needed to be shot in 2 months, after a period of time that also made the reunion of the teams, actors and director very exciting. No doubt, when they met, everyone simply said, as Sam does at the end of the novel: “Okay, here we go again.”
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