Intermediate Form

(show) I thought the destruction of the ring in the movie is actually better than the equivalent part of the book. (I did find and read the paragraphs where the ring was destroyed, but if there were flashbacks to it later I haven't read them.)

In the book, the ring is destroyed when Gollum falls into the fires of Mount Doom. He falls, saying Precious one last time, poof, and it's gone.

In the movie, the ring actually floats on the surface of the lava for a while, until (and this is just my impression from watching the movie once) Frodo finally gives up on getting it back. Only by rejecting it can he destroy it and free himself from its power.

I liked that the ending song of the movie was in English, where the ending songs of the last two movies were in Elvish. It seems to me to be appropriate to the dawning of the fourth age, the age of Man.