I would have to say Return of the King. I remember watching each one of them in the theatres, and before a new one would come out, I would watch the previous ones to catch up. ROTK put an extreme definition to Theatrical Climax. It was every single bind and will put into one final book, and then watching it vividly come to life, it really was something else. But yes, FOTR=2nd, TTT=3rd, ROTK=1st. Random to say, but you should read the story of Beren and Luthien in Tokiens "The Silmarillion." Talk about a story.