LOS ANGELES -- Ask Orlando Bloom what souvenirs he kept from the major movies of his career, and a theme emerges.

From Lord of the Rings? Legolas' bow and arrow.

From Ridley Scott's Crusades epic Kingdom of Heaven? A sword and armour (as well as Sidi, a street dog he adopted from the Moroccan location shoot -- a mutt who awaits him back home in England as we speak).

And from the Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy, which comes to a close this week with the release of Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End?

"A knife and a sword. Yeah, it's kind of an armoury," he says, chuckling. "Some day I'll have a place where I can show it off properly."

But there won't be any additions to Bloom's armoury any time soon. With At World's End, Bloom is not in the mood to buckle any more swashes. "I've really enjoyed the ride, and they say, 'Never say never.' It's been a lot of fun playing Will Turner, a character I feel I know and understand. Johnny (Depp)'s awesome. Gore (director Gore Verbinski) has been great. But it's been the majority of my adult life (playing a pirate and an elf), I'm in my late 20s and I'm looking forward to a completely different experience."

Though Disney has reportedly pencilled in 2009 for a fourth instalment of the adventures of flamboyant pirate Captain Jack Sparrow (Depp), one is hard-pressed to find anyone involved, save one, who wants to go through it all again.

Not Bloom, who starts rehearsals next month for a London production of David Storey's play In Celebration. Not Keira Knightley, whose character Elizabeth Swann gets promoted to pirate queen in At World's End. And not director Verbinski, who filmed this movie and the previous one, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, virtually simultaneously. "I'm not sick of pirates, I'm sick of work," Verbinski says. "We've been working seven days a week the past year. It's time to live a little bit."

The one reportedly eager pirate is Depp. And with Dead Man's Chest having earned a mind-boggling $1 billion worldwide, he might be all it takes.

"Everybody wants to do something else," Verbinski says, "but Johnny's had the chance to do something else, so of course he's the one who wants to do another (Pirates). And once you have Johnny, you have the possibility of a fourth movie," Verbinski says, though he does allow that the project would be unlikely without writers Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio.

There is certainly an aura of finality to Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (which was shot on location in various Caribbean locales with "second unit" shoots in Greenland and Niagara Falls). There are mortal turns of fate for certain characters (although this is a series where people are routinely hauled back from the netherworld).

In fact, resurrection is where we pick up -- with Turner, Swann, Captain Barbossa (Geoffrey Rush) and a Chinese pirate named Sao Feng (Chow Yun-Fat) sailing off a waterfall at the edge of the world to retrieve Sparrow from Davy Jones' Locker (the mythical Jones being played by Bill Nighy).

As for his part, Bloom says, "I've grown up a lot with these films," and with the movie-star status and absurdities such as People magazine's Most Beautiful People rankings that accompanied it.

"I learned it's too easy to take that stuff too seriously, and that it's a process learning to keep the noise down," he says. "I keep coming back to the work. I just want to get back to that feeling I had when I got out of drama school -- just being an actor, working with a company of actors, not being in a starring role, just getting on with it."