Gandalf and Pippin reach Minas Tirith. Aragorn takes the Paths of the Dead and brings help up the river. In the Battle of the Pelennor Fields, Éowyn and Merry bring down the Witch-king, Théoden dies and Denethor kills himself on a pyre. Sam rescues Frodo from the tower of Cirith Ungol, and the two cross Mordor while the army of the West lures Sauron to the Black Gate. At Mount Doom, Frodo can't let go of the Ring. Gollum bites off his finger and falls into the fire with the Ring, and Sauron is destroyed. Aragorn is crowned and marries Arwen. The hobbits go home and drive Saruman out of the Shire. Years later, Frodo sails from the Grey Havens with Bilbo and Gandalf.
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ChangeThe Dead never reach Minas Tirith
In the book, Aragorn releases the Army of the Dead after taking the ships at Pelargir. The ones who reach the Pelennor Fields are men of Gondor and the northern Dúnedain. In the film, the ghosts sweep the battle.
The scene where Gollum frames Sam and Frodo sends him home only exists in the film. In the book, Sam never leaves Frodo's side on the stairs of Cirith Ungol.
In the extended cut, Saruman falls from the top of Orthanc. In the book, he dies in the Shire, stabbed in the back by Wormtongue, who is then shot down by hobbit arrows.
The book spends almost half a chapter on Faramir and Éowyn's romance in the Houses of Healing. The film gives it one short scene, and only in the extended cut.
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