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Chase & Josh: Fact or Fantasy

The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King Differences Part 1 Between Novel & Film

Chase & Josh: Fact or Fantasy

Riddikulus Patronus

Fiction, Books, Arts

5765 Ratings

🗓️ 17 July 2022

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Summary

It's that time again here at Fact or Fantasy where today we highlight and compare key differences between Part 1 of the extended edition film The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King to its novel counterpart. We will be comparing the scenes of the film with the corresponding events in the novel in a way that may seem out of order as they do not line up evenly due to the changes in character perspectives. Stay tuned while we detail the major differences found between the movie and books such as; the death of Saruman, Aragorn's interaction with the palantír, the reforging of the Sword That Was Broken, and the events that lead to taking the Paths of the Dead. With outlining core differences that could negatively affect the plot, discussing additions that we were happy to see on screen, providing the film with a numeric grade, and providing passages from the novel as evidence for certain viewpoints, don't miss out. "See my friends, when I had mastered the Stone, I learned many things. A grave peril I saw coming unlooked-for upon Gondor from the South that will draw off great strength from the defence of Minas Tirith. If it is not countered swiftly, I deem the the City will be lost ere ten days be gone."

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0:00.0

Oh, Welcome back. It's Chase and Josh with Fact or Fantasy. That's Chase and I'm

0:35.4

Josh and we're here to give you part five of Lord of the Rings and the

0:38.6

Return of the King today where we are going to be detailing and outlining and highlighting the key differences between

0:44.8

part one of the film and the corresponding sections of the novel.

0:48.9

And as we've mentioned before, it's a little difficult, you know, when we first did this with the fellowship

0:54.0

of the ring it really lined up well with the novel in the sections there but when

0:57.2

they started switching perspectives it started to get a little different between the

1:00.0

film and the books so what we've had to do is just kind of do the novel straight

1:04.9

through and then kind of highlight the differences as they come across in that

1:08.5

film versus the novel so that's where we're going to be tackling the day

1:11.7

part one of that.

1:13.0

You know, I see this one was a little bit on the really different side than things we've kind of covered the past couple weeks or so.

1:21.0

So I'm interested in you know really detailing this

1:23.6

finding out the differences that Chase thought were important the ones that

1:26.4

I highlighted myself and we're just gonna kind of go through it that way and

1:29.8

before we get started I'll go ahead and turn it over to Chase's Safiudes and then we'll get after it.

1:35.0

Yeah, I think this is the most notes I've ever taken on a besides Harry, on like a differences perspective.

1:47.0

And you know, when I was a kid, I really enjoyed this film and now I look back and I still enjoyed it for what it was I guess I mean I think

1:56.7

the best way for me is I look at them like they're two separate franchises.

2:03.0

I'll let you take it away, Jay Nellie.

2:05.0

See, like, that'd be fine if they didn't use the same exact name as the book that they're covering,

2:11.0

right?

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