What's the Difference between The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King the Book and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King the Movie?
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King Book vs Movie
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Saruman moves to Bag End with Grima. The hobbits eventually kick him out. Saruman kicks Grima out of anger. Grima snaps and kills Saruman in Bag End. The Hobbits then killed Grima. |
Grima kills Saruman at his home at Orthanc. He falls and is impaled on a spiked wheel. Grima is then shot and killed by an arrow from Legolas. |
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The sons of Elrond, Elladan and Elrohir joined with thirty of the Dúnedain led by Halbarad. They met up with Aragorn and fought beside him for the remainder of the story. |
This doesn't happen.
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Aragorn brought the banner Arwen made on the journey from Rivendell. |
Elrond brought the reforged sword of Isildur instead of the banner. |
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Aragorn and the Army of the Dead take over the Umbar ships. Allies of Gondor are loaded onto the ships to join the Battle of Pelennor. |
The Army of the Dead come to fight in the Battle.
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Merry is taken on the horse of Eowyn. He doesn't realize who it is until she reveals her identity to the Witch king of Angmar. |
Merry knows it is Eowyn right away. |
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Merry is at the Houses of Healing during the battle at the Black Gates. |
He fights in the battle at the Black Gates.
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Prince Imrahil of Dol Amroth helps Minas Tirith. |
This doesn't happen. |
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Sam is mistaken for an Elf warrior by the Orcs of Cirith Ungol. |
This doesn't happen.
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Pippin becomes friend with a guard in Minas Tirith named Beregond, as well as his son Bergil. |
Beregond and Bergil aren't even in the movie. |
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The chapter titled "The Scouring of the Shire" happens. |
None of this chapter is in the movie.
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Aragorn does not want to reveal to the city that he is the king after the Battle of Pelennor. |
You see Gimli lounging in the Steward's chair while smoking his pipe. |
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Gandalf told the story of Deagol finding the Ruling Ring and how Smeagol killed him for it. It was in Fellowship when he told him. |
Gollum's history with the ring opens the film as a prologue.
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Sam and Frodo remain together on the road until they are separated when Frodo is taken into the Tower of Cirith Ungol. |
Frodo becomes upset with Sam for offering to carry the Ring when they read the top of the stairs. He sends him away. |
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Gollum gets the ring back from Frodo at the Cracks of Doom. He then slips and falls in destroying the ring in the process. |
Frodo and Gollum fight for the ring and they both fall. Frodo is able to grab hold of the side and is saved, while Gollum falls into the lava and is killed and the ring is destroyed.
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