I just saw The Return of the King.

If you, like me, have been putting off seeing these movies for some reason, the following may spoil some things for you. You've been warned. :)

Firstly, I've never seen the Lord of the Ring movies before now. TNT played all three of them this weekend so I set my DVR to record them. Having just finished watching the final movie, I'm confused about the ending. I may have missed the relavence of the ship sailing off in to the sunset somewhere but does that mean they all died or something? And why did Frodo have to go with them all? Are all the elves dead? The whole last 10 minutes or so lost me.

I hope someone here can explain it all.

The ships are going to Valinor.

I did watch all the movies. I already erased them though. I doubt I'd watch them again anyways. Just looking for some clarification.

They didn't die, but where they went (Valinor) is like Middle Earth's Heaven. Gandalf had to go there because he was on borrowed time; Frodo and Bilbo didn't have to go but they did anyway because they were bored.

The ships were leaving for the undying lands, which is basically Heaven. Everyone would like to go there, but they're not allowed. Just the elves and wizards. It was an honor for Frodo and Bilbo to get to go.

If you, like me, have been putting off seeing these movies for some reason, the following may spoil some things for you. You've been warned. :)

Firstly, I've never seen the Lord of the Ring movies before now. TNT played all three of them this weekend so I set my DVR to record them. Having just finished watching the final movie, I'm confused about the ending. I may have missed the relavence of the ship sailing off in to the sunset somewhere but does that mean they all died or something? And why did Frodo have to go with them all? Are all the elves dead? The whole last 10 minutes or so lost me.

I hope someone here can explain it all.

Vundi

Watch the first two movies before coming to ask these questions...chessmaster1989

If you, like me, have been putting off seeing these movies for some reason, the following may spoil some things for you. You've been warned. :)

Firstly, I've never seen the Lord of the Ring movies before now. TNT played all three of them this weekend so I set my DVR to record them. Having just finished watching the final movie, I'm confused about the ending. I may have missed the relavence of the ship sailing off in to the sunset somewhere but does that mean they all died or something? And why did Frodo have to go with them all? Are all the elves dead? The whole last 10 minutes or so lost me.

I hope someone here can explain it all.

watch the extended versions of the movies
but ya i would read the books...

If you, like me, have been putting off seeing these movies for some reason, the following may spoil some things for you. You've been warned. :)

Firstly, I've never seen the Lord of the Ring movies before now. TNT played all three of them this weekend so I set my DVR to record them. Having just finished watching the final movie, I'm confused about the ending. I may have missed the relavence of the ship sailing off in to the sunset somewhere but does that mean they all died or something? And why did Frodo have to go with them all? Are all the elves dead? The whole last 10 minutes or so lost me.

I hope someone here can explain it all.

They didn't die, but where they went (Valinor) is like Middle Earth's Heaven. Gandalf had to go there because he was on borrowed time; Frodo and Bilbo didn't have to go but they did anyway because they were bored.

Theokhoth

[QUOTE="Vundi"][QUOTE="lightleggy"] the place they sailed to is called "valinor" in the first movie, you see that frodo arrives to rivendel, and there are hardly any elves there. this is because most of the elves moved to valinor because it was safer there. at the end of the movie, frodo and bilbo go there because they were allowed to! and they would obviously not deny itlightleggy

The jist of it is, they all lived happily ever after.

I got the version with 12 hours extensionlightleggy

[QUOTE="lightleggy"]I got the version with 12 hours extensionduxup

[QUOTE="lightleggy"]I got the version with 12 hours extensionduxup

You could say that.

[QUOTE="lightleggy"]I got the version with 12 hours extensionduxup