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The Return of the King is the third and final volume of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, following The Fellowship of the Ring and The Two leondumoulin.nl‎: ‎ (first edition).
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The story begins in the kingdom of Gondor , which is soon to be attacked by the Dark Lord Sauron. Tolkien conceived of The Lord of the Rings as a single volume comprising six "books" plus extensive appendices. The original publisher split the work into three volumes, publishing the fifth and sixth books with the appendices into the final volume with the title The Return of the King.

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Tolkien felt the chosen title revealed too much of the story, and indicated he preferred The War of the Ring as a title. Gandalf and Pippin arrive at Minas Tirith in the kingdom of Gondor , and there Pippin gets to view for the first time the mighty city built on seven levels and with the Tower of Ecthelion high above the Pelennor Fields. They meet Denethor , the Lord and Steward of Gondor , and deliver the news to him of Boromir's death which Denethor already knows of, because he holds Boromir's cloven horn in his lap , as well as the fact that a devastating attack on his city by Sauron , the Dark Lord of Mordor , is imminent.

Stung by the scorn of Denethor, Pippin enters the service of the Steward as repayment of a debt he owes to Boromir , Denethor's dead son and preferred heir. Pippin then meets Beregond , a guard of the Citadel, who tutors him in his duties, and his young son Bergil, who guides him around Minas Tirith. In the middle of the night, Gandalf returns to their room, frustrated that Faramir has not yet returned.

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On their way back from Isengard, Aragorn , the king, and his company are met by the Company of Rangers from Arnor in the north the "Grey Company" , led by Elladan and Elrohir, the sons of Elrond, and Halbarad, a leader of Rangers from the North. They had answered the summons of Galadriel to join Aragorn in his cause. Instead, able to see a new threat to Gondor, he decides to travel the Paths of the Dead and find the lost army of the undead oathbreakers who dwell under the Dwimorberg, the Haunted Mountain.

These spirits were cursed because they did not help Isildur during the War of the Last Alliance. The company then passes under the Haunted Mountain where they come across the bones of a missing prince of Rohan, who had foolishly ventured on the Paths of the Dead. The company then comes out on the other side of the mountain into the valley of the Morthond River in Gondor and then proceed to the Stone of Erech. There, the Oathbreakers gather around the Grey Company in the middle of the night and resolve to fulfil their oath.

They all then ride east to the great port of Pelargir and vanish into the storm of Mordor. They enter the upper hold of Dunharrow via a narrow switchback path where they see old "Pukel-Men" sculptures guarding the turns. Finally Dernhelm, one of the Rohirrim, secretly takes Merry up on his horse so that he can accompany the rest of the Rohirrim.

Back in Minas Tirith, Pippin is now clad in the uniform of the tower guard and watches the fortunes of war unfold. Faramir , Boromir's younger brother, returns from his campaign with the shattered remnants of his company from Ithilien where he reveals that he has met Frodo and Sam and allowed them to continue on their mission. When Gandalf hears that they are heading for Cirith Ungol, he becomes afraid, and Denethor becomes angry at Faramir for what he thinks was a foolish decision. The next day, Denethor orders Faramir to ride out and continue the hopeless defence of Osgiliath against a horde of orcs.

Osgiliath is soon overrun and a gravely wounded Faramir is carried back to Denethor. Denethor then descends into madness as the hosts of Mordor press ever closer to Gondor's capital city of Minas Tirith, burning the Pelennor Fields and then the first circle of the city. His people seemingly lost and his only remaining son all but dead, Denethor orders a funeral pyre built that is to claim both him and his dying son.

A fearful Pippin witnesses all this and runs down to the first circle to find Gandalf. There, the hosts of Mordor, led by the dreaded Witch-king of Angmar , have succeeded in breaking through the gates of Minas Tirith—using a terrifying battering ram named Grond, and only Gandalf is left sitting on his horse Shadowfax to oppose him. Just as the Witch-king raises his sword to strike the wizard, the horns of Rohan can be heard coming to the aid of Gondor. At first it seems that they are too late, but then the winds change and begin to dispel the darkness.

Revived, the Rohirrim charge into the enemy on the Pelennor. The battle is also joined by a "black fleet with black sails".


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The forces of Mordor initially rejoice at its arrival; and then are horrified to see the banner of the King upon the ships. Aragorn has succeeded in using the Oathbreakers to defeat the Corsairs of Umbar ; the men of Gondor who were once slaves on the ships are brought back to fight the host of Mordor. While the battle is raging, Denethor attempts to immolate himself and Faramir on his funeral pyre, but Gandalf and Pippin succeed in saving Faramir, aided by Beregond, who has deserted his post and killed several of Denethor's servants in order to save Faramir.

Denethor also reveals that he knows of Aragorn and his claim to the kingship but will not accept him. Gandalf realizes that Denethor—in his desperation—had looked into the seeing-stone several times. Unlike Saruman, Denethor was too noble of purpose and too great of will to submit to the will of Sauron, but the Dark Lord duped the Steward into despairing of the situation. Faramir, though, is brought to the Houses of Healing where Gandalf awaits the wounded and Pippin and Beregond guard Faramir, the new Steward of Gondor.

Aragorn comes in secret to the Houses of Healing, removing his regalia of the kingship to which he has not yet made his claim , and wearing only his elven-cloak and elven-brooch. Aragorn heals Faramir, using athelas or kingsfoil the same weed he used to ease Frodo's pain at Weathertop and outside of Moria. Legolas and Gimli are reunited with Merry and Pippin and tell of their great journey on the Paths of the Dead and how Aragorn could even command the spirits of the Dead.

They then tell the story of the capture of the Black Fleet and the rescue of Minas Tirith.

With the aid of the Ring and his sword, Sam scares off the Orcs he encounters. The hobbits don Orc clothing and begin the arduous trek through Mordor. After several long and weary days of travel, the two hobbits reach Orodruin, or Mount Doom.

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Sam carries Frodo to the top. Just as they reach the Cracks of Doom, Frodo refuses to give up the Ring, overcome by its power.

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Gollum appears and struggles with Frodo. Gandalf flies to Orodruin on the back of Gwaihir, the giant eagle, and rescues Frodo and Sam. The Darkness dissipates from Gondor. Minas Tirith and the surrounding areas begin to recover and rebuild. The hobbits return to the Shire, where they find their homes ravaged.

The Return of the King

A group of Men have entered and set up an oppressive police state. Maybe Kurosawa's battles will one day be described as proto-Jacksonian. And for the first time in this series they are built on to a plot with some narrative force. Meanwhile, the forces of good led by Aragorn Viggo Mortensen embark on a massive diversionary tactic: an all-out assault on the orcs, to distract the evil one from seeing that Frodo is going to dispose of the Ring he covets. And there are loads of other showstopping moments, including a creepy tangle with a spider.

It's a fantastic spectacle, but how much you really love it will depend on testicle-altitude.

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Unlike other fantasy stories which have an airy sense of buoyancy, The Lord of the Rings always has that stolid, puddingy heaviness, the earnestly childlike quality of which almost, but not quite, prevents it from being pompous. After every long-bearded, pointy-eared thing has been said and done, after every hobbity madrigal has been crooned, every unfunny pipe-smoking bit of business complete and every Elvish phrase solemnly intoned - subtitled, not dubbed - has this film anything meaningful to say about war, or about the eternal moral contest with evil?

Well, with Saruman's omission there is no compelling intelligence directing the forces of darkness; the face of evil effectively has to be Gollum who, although nasty, is no worthy dramatic counterpoint for Aragorn and Gandalf. And anyway, in Return of the King, apart from the sacrificial loss of Bernard Hill's King Theoden, who is poignantly old anyway, the only people killed in battle are trillions and trillions of nameless beasties and anonymous hordes.

At the conclusion of the novel, where does Frodo go?

No one important. Very different from warfare in the non-toytown world. There is no sobering experience of loss, no real sense of the obscenity and tragedy of war and therefore nothing really at stake. That's why it appeals to adolescent boys, and to adults sentimentally loyal to their departed, adolescent selves. It may seem churlish to remember how shallow The Lord of the Rings is, when the Peter Jackson movies have turned out to be such terrifically enjoyable escapism.

I started the series an atheist and finished an agnostic.