The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings
Publisher: Mariner Books
Published: 2005 Jun
Date: 2010 Jul 20
Modified: 2022 Nov 15
Rating: 4
Summary
For over fifty years, J.R.R. Tolkien’s peerless fantasy has accumulated worldwide acclaim as the greatest adventure tale ever written.
No other writer has created a world as distinct as Middle-earth, complete with its own geography, history, languages, and legends. And no one has created characters as endearing as Tolkien’s large-hearted, hairy-footed hobbits. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings continues to seize the imaginations of readers of all ages, and this new three-volume paperback edition is designed to appeal to the youngest of them.
In ancient times the Rings of Power were crafted by the Elvensmiths, and Sauron, the Dark Lord, forged the One Ring, filling it with his own power so that he could rule all others. But the One Ring was taken from him, and though he sought it throughout Middle-earth, still it remained lost to him . . .
From Library Journal
New Line Cinema will be releasing "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy in three separate installments, and Houghton Mifflin Tolkien's U.S. publisher since the release of The Hobbit in 1938 will be re-releasing each volume of the trilogy separately and in a boxed set (ISBN 0-618-15397-7. $22; pap. ISBN 0-618-15396-9. $12).
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Review
"A masterful story — an epic in its own way — with elements of high adventure, suspense, mystery, poetry and fantasy." (Boston Herald )
"An extraordinary work--pure excitement..." (The New York Times )
"Among the greatest works of imaginative fiction of the twentieth century." (Sunday Telegraph )
"One of the great fairy-tale quests in modern literature" (Time Magazine )
"A remarkable book" (Newsweek )
"A work of immense narrative power that can sweep the reader up and hold him enthralled for days and weeks." (The Nation )
"Tolkien's stories take place against a background of measureless depth…That background is ever-present in the creator's mind and it gives Frodo and company a three-dimensional reality that is seldom found in this kind of writing." (The Washington Post )
"Here are beauties which pierce like swords or burn like cold iron." -- C.S. Lewis
For over fifty years, J.R.R. Tolkien’s peerless fantasy has accumulated worldwide acclaim as the greatest adventure tale ever written.
No other writer has created a world as distinct as Middle-earth, complete with its own geography, history, languages, and legends. And no one has created characters as endearing as Tolkien’s large-hearted, hairy-footed hobbits. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings continues to seize the imaginations of readers of all ages, and this new three-volume paperback edition is designed to appeal to the youngest of them.
In ancient times the Rings of Power were crafted by the Elvensmiths, and Sauron, the Dark Lord, forged the One Ring, filling it with his own power so that he could rule all others. But the One Ring was taken from him, and though he sought it throughout Middle-earth, still it remained lost to him . . .
From Library Journal
New Line Cinema will be releasing "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy in three separate installments, and Houghton Mifflin Tolkien's U.S. publisher since the release of The Hobbit in 1938 will be re-releasing each volume of the trilogy separately and in a boxed set (ISBN 0-618-15397-7. $22; pap. ISBN 0-618-15396-9. $12).
Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Review
"A masterful story — an epic in its own way — with elements of high adventure, suspense, mystery, poetry and fantasy." (Boston Herald )
"An extraordinary work--pure excitement..." (The New York Times )
"Among the greatest works of imaginative fiction of the twentieth century." (Sunday Telegraph )
"One of the great fairy-tale quests in modern literature" (Time Magazine )
"A remarkable book" (Newsweek )
"A work of immense narrative power that can sweep the reader up and hold him enthralled for days and weeks." (The Nation )
"Tolkien's stories take place against a background of measureless depth…That background is ever-present in the creator's mind and it gives Frodo and company a three-dimensional reality that is seldom found in this kind of writing." (The Washington Post )
"Here are beauties which pierce like swords or burn like cold iron." -- C.S. Lewis
