Looks at several themes of The Lord of the rings, The Return of the king and shows that while Middle Earth may not be real, the situations characters and motivations resonate through history.

With Peter Jackson's Academy Award-winning epic motion picture trilogy drawing to a spectacular and triumphant close, Gary Russell's detailed research takes us back into the world of Middle-earth, to relive all the visual drama and excitement of The Return of the King. The Art of The Return of the King illustrates the creative development of the film from sketch to special effect and features 600 images, most appearing nowhere else. This fully authorized...