He burns himself alive on a pyre Pippin and Gandalf rescue his son Faramir from the same fate.Īragorn, accompanied by Legolas, Gimli, and the Rangers of the North, takes the Paths of the Dead to recruit the Dead Men of Dunharrow, oathbreakers who are bound by an ancient curse which denies them rest until they fulfil their oath to fight for the King of Gondor. Denethor, deceived by Sauron, falls into despair. Minas Tirith is besieged the Lord of the Nazgûl uses a spell-wound battering ram to destroy the city's gates. Gandalf arrives at Minas Tirith to warn Denethor of the attack, while Théoden musters the Rohirrim to ride to Gondor's aid. Sauron sends a great army against Gondor. The volume ends with a set of appendices and an index, varying in different editions. Book six has variously been titled The Return of the King (clashing with the title of the third volume) and The End of the Third Age, though in many editions the Books are untitled. The body of the volume consists of books five and six. Some editions of the volume contain a synopsis for readers who have not read the earlier volumes. The Return of the King was in the end published as the third and final volume of The Lord of the Rings, on 20 October 1955 in the UK. Tolkien felt the chosen title revealed too much of the story, and indicated that he preferred The War of the Ring as a title for the volume. Rayner Unwin however 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. ![]() These titles were eventually used in the (2000) Millennium edition. In 1953, he proposed titles for the six books to his publisher, Rayner Unwin Book Five was to be The War of the Ring, while Book Six was to be The End of the Third Age. Tolkien conceived of The Lord of the Rings as a single work comprising six "books" plus extensive appendices. The story begins in the kingdom of Gondor, which is soon to be attacked by the Dark Lord Sauron. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, following The Fellowship of the Ring and The Two Towers. The Return of the King is the third and final volume of J.
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