It provides a window into a bygone age, showing Sauron's defeat in the Second Age, with Isildur (Harry Sinclair) claiming the One Ring for himself and refusing to destroy it. But we were all of us ...

The iconic image of Elrond urging Isildur to cast the One Ring into the fires of Mount Doom, a pivotal moment in Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings trilogy, is a powerful piece of cinema.