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Please note: Parking this weekend is limited to Nitrate Picture Show attendees, museum visitors, and guests of two scheduled weddings. Thank you for your cooperation. Additionally, there will be no Landscape Tour on Sunday, June 7. 

 

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

Thursday, December 30, 2021, 7:30 p.m., Dryden Theatre
still from The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King  (2003)

(Peter Jackson, New Zealand/US 2003, 201 min., 35mm)

The conclusion of Peter Jackson’s epic adaptation of J. R. R. Tolkien’s trilogy won all eleven Academy Awards for which it was nominated, including Best Picture (becoming the first fantasy film to win that category). The Return of the King details the culmination of Frodo Baggins’s perilous journey to Mordor to destroy the One Ring and thwart Sauron’s plans of world domination. Members of the Fellowship of the Ring reunite in heroic battle for the salvation of Middle Earth. Filmed back-to-back and released in three consecutive years, The Lord of the Rings paved the way for fantasy and speculative fiction in the modern blockbuster era.

 

Event Details

Dryden Theatre
$7 members
$10 nonmembers
$5 students with ID

$5 17 and under

Advance tickets encouraged.

Patrons must show proof of COVID vaccination (regardless of age), photo ID and wear masks. .

 

Tickets no longer for sale

About This Series

The Lord of the Rings Trilogy at 20

Two decades ago, one of the greatest experiments in cinema history was released. J. R. R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings was adapted by director Peter Jackson and co-screenwriters Fran Walsh and Philippa Boyens. This sprawling fantasy was filmed back-to-back over fourteen months with a budget of nearly $300 million from production company New Line Cinema and was released as three epic films during December of three consecutive years.

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