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4 unusual facts about The Return of the King


Forlong the Fat

He is a supporting character in The Lord of the Rings, appearing in the third volume, The Return of the King; he was cut from the 2003 film adaptation, however.

Rangitata River

The river formed the Rangitata Valley, in the center of the Southern Alps, and the on-location photography of the Edoras set from The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, and The Return of the King was filmed in this valley, on and around Mount Sunday.

The Lord of the Rings Trading Card Game

Between the second and third expansions of The Return of the King block an extra set, Reflections, was released.

The Return of the King

The Return of the King, 1980 animated feature made for television, featuring the voices of Orson Bean and John Huston.


Denethor

Denethor II, son of Ecthelion, is a fictional character in J. R. R. Tolkien's The Return of the King, which is the third and final part of his novel The Lord of the Rings.

Denethor was voiced by William Conrad in Rankin/Bass's 1980 animated adaptation of The Return of the King, and by Peter Vaughan in BBC Radio's 1981 serialization.

Éomer

He appears in The Two Towers and The Return of the King, the second and third volumes of Tolkien's fantasy novel The Lord of the Rings.

Mouth of Sauron

He appears in The Lord of the Rings — specifically in the chapter "The Black Gate Opens" in the third volume, The Return of the King — as the chief emissary of Sauron.

Nellie Bellflower

She has also been in The Last Unicorn (voice), Rankin/Bass The Return of the King, Americathon, the miniseries East of Eden, and guest roles on various TV shows such as Barnaby Jones, Barney Miller, Starsky and Hutch, and Happy Days as Fonzie's ex-fiancée.


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Annie Collins

Her work with Jamie Selkirk (as an "additional editor") helped earn The Return of the King an Oscar for Best Editing in 2004.

Dominion of Men

However, through notes and letters of Tolkien, a great deal of it published posthumously by his son Christopher Tolkien, as well as in passages from the Annals of the Kings and Rulers (An appendix of The Return of the King) and other portions of The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion, some events can be defined.

Gran Madre di Dio, Turin

The church was proposed in 1814 to celebrate the return of the King Victor Emmanuel I of Sardinia to the crown after the defeat of Napoleon.