The Lord of the Rings Tome 3
The Return of the King

The third part of J.R.R. Tolkien's epic adventure The lord of the rings. The armies of the Dark Lord are massing as his evil shadow spreads ever wider. Men, Dwarves, Elves and Ents unite forces to do battle against the Dark. Meanwhile, Frodo and Sam struggle further into Mordor in their heroic quest to destroy the One Ring. The devastating conclusion of J.R.R. Tolkien's classic tale, begun in The Fellowship of the Ring and The Two Towers, which includes the Appendices and a revised Index in full.

The Return of the King is the third part of J.R.R. Tolkien's epic adventure The Lord of the Rings, a beautifully written masterpiece which is among the greatest works of imaginative fiction of the twentieth century. "For width of imagination" said the novelist Richard Hughes, "it almost beggars parallel, and it is nearly as remarkable for its vividness and narrative skill which carries the reader on enthralled for page after page." C.S.
Lewis wrote : "No imaginary world has been projected which is at once multifarious and so true to its own inner laws ; none so seemingly objective, so disinfected from the taint of an author's merely individual psychology ; none so relevant to the actual human situation yet free from allegory. And what fine shading there is in the variations of style to meet the almost endless diversity of scenes and characters — comics, homely, epic, monstrous, or diabolic." "It is timeless," said Naomi Mitchison, "and will go on and on." This is the third part of a three-book paperback edition which reproduces the complete authoritative text of The Lord of the Rings, together with the original maps drawn by Christopher Tolkien.
The Appendices and a fully revised and expanded Index are included in The Return of the King.