Tolkien never wanted his book to be in three parts in the first place, so the only relevance for where the events of the storyline are broken up is in terms of movie-making. Putting Boromir's death at the end of FOTR was important so that that film would have a good climax. Helm's Deep was made into the climax of TTT. Shelob will be the opening action segment for the Frodo-Sam part of ROTK.
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Where is the horse and the rider? Where is the horn that was blowing? They have passed like rain on the mountains. Like wind in the meadow. The days have gone down in the west. Behind the hills, into shadow.
How did it come to this?
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