The Lord of the Rings · Book 3
The Return of the King
- Published
- 20 October 1955
- Pages
- 495
- ISBN-13
- 9780358380252
- Type
- novel
About this book
The Return of the King closed out the three-volume publication a full year after the first, in October 1955, at 495 pages -- the longest of the three volumes, though Tolkien wrote all three as a single continuous novel.
Its place in The Lord of the Rings
The Return of the King is book 3 in the The Lord of the Rings series. It follows The Two Towers. See the full The Lord of the Rings reading order.
When the hobbit Frodo Baggins inherits a plain gold ring from his uncle Bilbo, he learns it is the One Ring — the master weapon forged by the Dark Lord Sauron to dominate Middle-earth, lost for centuries and now hunted again. Frodo leaves the safety of the Shire with a small fellowship of men, elves, dwarves and hobbits, and the story splits into two journeys: the desperate trek to destroy the Ring in the fires of Mount Doom, and the gathering war to hold off Sauron's armies while that quest has any chance of…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780358380252
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9782070612901
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9788324133086