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In Return of the King, the final book of J.R.R. Tolkien's three-volume epic, The Lord of the Rings, the courageous hobbit Frodo Baggins completes his heroic quest. This part of the saga opens with furious preparations far the coming attack on Minas Tirith in (Gondor by Sauron's dark forces. With the strategies of the wizard Gandalf and the timely aid of soldiers from Rohan—particularly Eowvn, the woman warrior—rhe remnants of the Fellowship and the soldiers of Gondor arc able to vanquish Sauron's troops and even kill the Lord of the Dark Riders. But another, bloodier battle awaits_ them outside Mordor's Black Gate.
The second section of l}" Return the King focuses on Frodo's journey. Ir begins with the unfortunate ringbearer a prisoner of evil Orcs and the ring in the hands of Frodo's servant, Sam. With Sam's help, Frodo escapes and reaches the heart of realm—the fiery Mount Doom, where he disposes of the ring once and for all. Chaos ensues, but Sauron is at last overthrown. Frodo and Sam are heralded as heroes; it seems their odyssey has finally ended and that they have only to return to their simple and idvllic lives in the Shire. But much has changed in the year they've been gone, and Frodo finds—in the final pages of the trilogv—that restoring peace to his home and heart may prove his most difficult test of all. As C. S. Lewis wrote of the trilogy after the final volume was published in England in 1955, "This book is too original and too opulent for any final judgment on a first read- ing. But we know at once that it has done things to us. We arc not quite the same.'
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El Señor de los Anillos: III. El retorno del rey
2022, Minotauro
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The Return of the King: Being the third part of The Lord of the Rings
2003, Ballantine Books
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The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of The Lord of the Rings
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The Return of The King: Being the third part of The Lord of the Rings
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The Return of the King: Being the third part of The Lord of the Rings
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The Return of the King: Being the third part of The Lord of the Rings
1994, Houghton Mifflin
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The Return of The King: Being the third part of The Lord of the Rings
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The Return of The King: Being the third part of The Lord of the Rings
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THE RETURN OF THE KING, which brings to a close the great epic of war and adventure begun in The Fellowship of the Ring and continued in The Two Towers, is the third and final part of J. R. R. Tolkien's masterpiece, "The Lord of the Rings."
In these three books, which form one continuous narrative, Tolkien created the saga of the Hobbits of Middle-earth and the great War of the Rings. Praised by such writers and poets as W. H. Auden, Richard Hughes and C. S. Lewis, "The Lord of the Rings" - that special world of beauty and terror and meaning - holds a secure place among the books that will live.
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