There's one scene in the EE of ROTK that Isurprisingly did not take note of until yesterday. It is near the end, when Sam and Frodo are on mt. Doom and Sam looks up and sees the stars through a slight opening in the clouds. The clouds are fiery red and the sy above is an incalculable blue. Sam says something like, "Look, Mr. Frodo, up there, you see there are places that even the shadow can't touch..."

It somehow made my pea-sized heart want to burst.