The Lord of the Rings: Book VI – The End of the Third Age
 a TRUE FANEDIT by Kerr
The final chapter of a six-part edit made to bring Peter Jackson’s adaptations of “The Lord of the Rings” as close as possible to the original book by J.R.R. Tolkien. member ratings: |
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J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings: Book VI – The End of the Third Age
INTENTION:
To separate Peter Jackson’s “The Lord of the Rings” trilogy into six parts that adhere as closely as possible to the six books of J.R.R. Tolkien’s “The Lord of the Rings”. This is done by both restructuring the films to match the narrative structure found in Tolkien’s book, and by removing as much as possible of the material that has no basis in Tolkien’s vision of Middle-Earth. For Book VI, apart from only following the journey of Frodo and Sam, several small cuts have been made, including the near-removal of Sauron’s electric lighthouse-eye. The events surrounding the destruction of the Ring have also been recut, and custom credits with new music have been added to the very end of the film.
CUTLIST:
- - The edit opens like the book, with Frodo in captivity in the Tower of Cirith Ungol.
- - Added some sound effects as Sam passes the statues outside the tower.
- - Cut Frodo’s line “I’m so sorry Sam”, since he didn’t send Sam away in Book IV.
- - Added “Book VI – The End of the Third Age” title over Sam and Frodo leaving the tower.
- - Sauron the Floating Eyeball has been minimizedThe searchlight has also been cut as much as possible, but can still be seen, faintly, in some shots.
- - Removed the shot of the orcs moving off. They move far too quickly, and the bit is not needed since we do not intercut with the rest of the Fellowship’s diversion.
- - Removed some wide shots from the Mount Doom sequence. The focus here should be on the characters, not the scenery.
- - Removed Sam’s “Come on!” after “… but I can carry you!”. I feel it is much more effective without the final bit.
- - Sam’s fight with Gollum has been shortened, both because there’s no good way to merge the two parts of the fight, and because Sam would have received some serious injuries from the thrashing Gollum gives him. Now Sam just slices Gollum’s belly with Sting.
- - The Mount Doom sequence is not intercut with the battle in front of the Black Gate.
- - Added some flashes of the Eye of Sauron (from FotR) to keep Sauron’s presence in the sequence without having the electric searchlight-eye.
- - Removed Sam’s line “Throw it in the fire!”
- - Gollum and the Ring are destroyed immediately upon hitting the lava.
- - Shortened Frodo dangling over the lava. Sam now pulls him up immidiately, without Frodo considering suicide.
- - Reordered the consequences of the Ring’s destruction. Mount Doom erupts, the Nazgul are destroyed, Sam and Frodo escape from Sammath Naur and then witness the destruction of Barad-Dur.
- - After Frodo’s line “I’m glad to be with you, Samwise Gamgee. Here, at the end of all things” we cut to the end of the battle in front of the Black Gate.
- - Some of the fades to black or white have been removed – the remaining have been shortened.
- - Gandalf’s “Now come the days of the king. May they be blessed” and Aragorn’s speech at the coronation have been cut.
- - Aragorn’s reunion with Arwen has been recut. Since that story has such a small role in these edits, the original scene felt too out of place.
- - The final shot of Frodo has been cut.
- - New credits with new music – “Bilbo’s Last Song” from the BBC dramatization.
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Just a short review here…
I have seen and enjoyed all of Kerrs book edits, this is the end of a very well done fanedit series
10 out of 10 … he successfully did what he set out to do and i will add this version of LoTR to my shelf along side Peter Jacksons
Excellent
Review by jelio — January 17, 2010 @ 3:15 am
10/10 for this very well made book VI, and for completing such a wonderful work on the whole series.
Review by TMBTM — January 18, 2010 @ 12:24 am
This fanedit is and allways be my favorite.
PJ’s version is good, Kerr’s is better if not the best.
I can watch this version forever.
Thanks Kerr
Review by henri2all — January 19, 2010 @ 10:13 pm
I have seen this fanedit already twice complety.
I just cab say; Awesome.
A must have for all Tolien fans.
This is a request for Boon23:
Please make a cover for part 6.
I wopuld be great to have the series complete with your covers.
Thanks
Review by henri2all — January 31, 2010 @ 9:20 pm
An epic saga concluded. Respect.
This one really has to be watched straight after book V, as it doesn’t stand all that well on it’s own. The build up to Mount Doom goes by quickly, no matter how much I liked the little changes on the way there. Some things I would have done differently, and other things I hadn’t thought of doing were great. Most of the time Kerr makes really good editing choices. The opening scene! It worked so well, I was having goosebumps, at least until the orcs started talking…
I’m giving this 8/10. It does lack some for me to call it truly brilliant, but this is one damn fine edit in a row of fine edits.
Congratulations on making it this far.
Review by spelledaren — February 9, 2010 @ 3:59 pm
Others don’t seem to worry about the continuity errors. I do. Biggest problem for me is that it comes off as a real movie, but does not at all get close to Peter Jackson’s original, which was fantastic and in itself flawless. If the intention was to create a workprint of how LOTR would have looked if it was closer to the books, it should look like one and present itself as one. Now it is just the lesser version of the original. Closer to Tolkien? Probably, but not better.
I don’t get it why people are praising these edits so much.
Review by walls83 — February 11, 2010 @ 2:50 pm
“Others don’t seem to worry about the continuity errors. I do.”
What continuity errors?
I’m trying to figure it out, and there are a couple of things that you could mean. Is it that some of the events in this movie take place after events in the previous one? That shouldn’t be it, since it’s just the narrative structure. Is it the scenes when Mt Doom explodes? Is it Frodo getting up to run very fast when Sam slices Gollum? Is it something else that I can’t even imagine? The original editors allowed for more jarring things than how Kerr handled those two things anyway.
The rest of the argument is fine, and I think Kerr would agree that it isn’t possible to match the originals. The intention wasn’t, I believe, to surpass PJ, but just to create a version as close to the books as possible. There was a demand for such an edit, and that Tolkien fan boys cheer this work isn’t very surprising…
Review by spelledaren — February 11, 2010 @ 9:42 pm
I have enjoyed your work on all of this saga, and I have to echo what spelledaren say’s .
What continuity errors??
Its impossible to match the original books with the metarial the guy had, but these are as close a match as possible.Very well edited and hard to believe we had not heard of Kerr before these edit’s. Well done Kerr 8/10 from me.
Review by searcher — February 26, 2010 @ 11:02 pm
Not my fave chapter in this DVD series so far, perhaps because by necessity it is so short. But as a flow-on from Book 5 it’s great. Lots of little changes to the sequences in Mordor add up to quite a different viewing experience.
This part gets 8/10 from me. But the whole 6-part series gets 10/10. Bravo Kerr!
Review by mullholland665 — July 23, 2010 @ 7:35 am