Other editions of book The Return of the King

Shipped from UK, please allow 10 to 21 business days for arrival. 2nd Edition, 8th Impression, 1974. Royal 8vo. 440pp. Excellent coloured folding map in original folds to rear. Very good clean tight sound square, no bookplate, gift inscription, no further marks of any kind. In bright gilt lettered red cloth with the very gentlest of rubbing to spine. Tolkien is as ever a delight, in this seminal edition.

THE GREATEST FANTASY EPIC OF OUR TIMEWhile the evil might of the Dark Lord Sauron swarmed out to conquer all Middle-earth, Frodo and Sam struggled deep into Mordor, seat of Sauron’s power. To defeat the Dark Lord, the accursed Ring of Power had to be destroyed in the fires of Mount Doom. But the way was impossibly hard, and Frodo was weakening. Weighed down by the compulsion of the Ring he began finally to despair.The awesome conclusion of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings, beloved by millions of readers around the world.

Here is the original American full dramatization, as broadcast on National Public Radio. War rages in the west, a titanic battle of will and strategy between the great wizard Gandalf and Sauron, the dark lord. Meanwhile, eastward in Mordor, Frodo and Sam approach the end of their improbable quest, bearing the One Ring ever closer to the Cracks of Doom, and to a final confrontation with the very essence of evil.