The Return of the King (The Lord of the Rings, Part Three)

by J R R Tolkien (Author)

Reading Level: 6th − 7th Grade
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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"There are very few works of genius in recent literature. This is one."—The Nation
J R R Tolkien
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was born on January 3, 1892, in Bloemfontein, South Africa. After serving in World War I, he embarked upon a distinguished academic career and was recognized as one of the finest philologists in the world. He was a professor of Anglo-Saxon at Oxford, a fellow of Pembroke College, and a fellow of Merton College until his retirement in 1959. He is, however, beloved throughout the world as the creator of Middle-earth and author of such classic works as The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. He died on September 2, 1973, at the age of eighty-one.
Classification
Fiction
ISBN-13
9780345339737
Lexile Measure
920
Guided Reading Level
-
Publisher
Del Rey Books
Publication date
July 12, 1986
Series
Lord of the Rings
BISAC categories
FIC009020 - Fiction | Fantasy | Epic
FIC004000 - Fiction | Classics
FIC021000 - Fiction | Media Tie-In
Library of Congress categories
Fantasy fiction, English
Middle Earth (Imaginary place)
Baggins, Frodo (Fictitious character)

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