The Return of the King

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J.R.R. Tolkien

The awesome conclusion to The Lord of the Rings—the greatest fantasy epic of all time—which began in The Fellowship of the Ring and The Two Towers.Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read While the evil might of the Dark Lord Sauron swarms out to conquer all Middle-earth, Frodo and Sam struggle deep into Mordor, seat of Sauron’s power. To defeat the Dark Lord, the One Ring, ruler of the accursed Rings of Power, must be destroyed in the fires of Mount Doom. But the way is impossibly hard, and Frodo is weakening. Weighed down by the compulsion of the Ring, he begins finally to despair.

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Author

J.R.R. Tolkien

Pages

512

Publisher

Random House Worlds

Published Date

1986-07-12

ISBN

0345339738 9780345339737

Ratings

Google: 5

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"Book. I love the movie, but the book was always my favorite of the trilogy."

Nancy

"I actually read this book in middle school. But from what I remember it was an amazing book! The characters are all super interesting and the story only gets better as you read! Fun fact: this book is actually banned in some places! "

Norah Mckinley

"Sure thing! Be sure to read the first two in the series though. Fellowship of the Ring and The Two Towers. "

Heather Pfeifle

"I tend to gravitate to Stephen King and Ray Bradbury quite often "

Sarah Brousseau

"A book called "Kingdom of the Wicked" by Kerri Maniscalco. I just picked it up from the library"

Erin

"The illustrated man by ray Bradbury "

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Isaac Rodriguez

"Right now I'm reading Summer Knight by Jim Butcher, Redemption by Karen Kingsbury and Well Met by Jen DeLuca. So far I am enjoying them all. "

Brandi M

"That’s a tough question. If I had to pick…The Gods of Jade and Shadow is my favorite right now. I just reread the hobbit and really enjoyed it! You? "

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Nastassia Pavlov

"Well I’ve read Wendy Webb’s recently and enjoyed them. Particularly The Keeper’s of Metsan Valo. I also enjoy JR Erickson’s books. None of them are similar to Tolkien though, they are “Northern Gothic” but I tend to jump around on genres lol"