Loved it all up until the final scene

Rating: 10/10 (7 November 2004)

As a very old fan of Tolkien's Lord of the Rings trilogy and having suffered through a couple of miserable screen adaptations, I can now say that Peter Jackson's three Lord of the Rings movies are my all-time favorite movie. I felt as though I were really there. New Zealand was the perfect choice for locations. All three films were excellent in every aspect of movie-making art.
Warning, spoiler: I could understand all of the changes made by the movie makers to the book except for the very last scene, when Sam comes home after seeing Frodo off at the Grey Havens. In the book, Frodo had invited Sam and Rosie to live with him at Bag End and had bequeathed it to him when he left Middle Earth. However, the movie shows Sam returning to #3 Bagshot Row, his old home. There was no theatrical reason to change this. They wouldn't even have needed an extra scene explaining Sam's return to Rosie and baby Elanor at Bag End. After such a magnificent film adaptation of the book, this final detail was jarring and left me less than enthralled. But overall, the movies are truly outstanding and will be classics for as long as movies are being made.