Just to settle the argument that Titanic is not widely considered one of the best films by either critics or audiences:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films_considered_the_best
Not mentioned once, and there's oodles of sources on that page so don't give me that "that's just wikipedia!" nonsesne. LOTR and ROTK however are mentioned many times in both the critical and audience sections. Here's the paragraph about LOTR in the audience section:
The Lord of the Rings trilogy (2001–2003) was voted the most popular film of all time by an audience poll for the Australian television special My Favourite Film and by a poll cast by 120,000 German voters for the TV special "Die besten Filme aller Zeiten" (German "The best films of all time").Its first film, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001), was the pick of readers in a poll by Empire magazine in November 2004. The third film, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, was voted the best movie of all time by Yahoo movies and Movies.com's annual reader's poll in 2006 and 2007.
The defense rests.