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{{Infobox book| <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Novels or Wikipedia:WikiProject_Books -->
| name          = The Return of the King
| image         = The Return of the King cover.gif
| caption       = First edition, with Tolkien's artwork
| author        = [[J. R. R. Tolkien]]
| country       = United Kingdom
| language      = English
| series        = ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]''
| genre         = [[Fantasy]]
| set_in        = [[Middle-earth]]
| publisher     = [[George Allen & Unwin]]
| release_date  = 20 October 1955
| pages         = 416 (''first edition'')
| oclc          = 933993
| congress      = PR6039.O32 L6 1954, v.3
| dewey         = 823.914
| preceded_by   = [[The Two Towers]]
}}

'''''The Return of the King''''' is the third and final volume of [[J. R. R. Tolkien]]'s ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'', following ''[[The Fellowship of the Ring]]'' and ''[[The Two Towers]]''. It was published in 1955. The story begins in the kingdom of [[Gondor]], which is soon to be attacked by the [[Dark Lord]] [[Sauron]].

The volume was praised by literary figures including [[W. H. Auden]], [[Anthony Price]], and [[Michael Straight]], but attacked by [[Edwin Muir]], who had praised ''The Fellowship of the Ring''.

The chapter "[[The Scouring of the Shire]]", and a chapter-length narrative in the appendices, "[[The Tale of Aragorn and Arwen]]", have attracted discussion by scholars and critics. "The Scouring of the Shire" has been called the most important chapter in the whole novel, providing in its internal [[quest]] to restore [[the Shire]] a counterbalance to the main quest to destroy [[One Ring|the Ring]]. Commentators have read into it a variety of contemporary political allusions including a satire of [[socialism]] and a strand of [[environmentalism]]. Tolkien described "The Tale of Aragorn and Arwen" as essential to the plot of the novel. It covers events both before and after the main narrative, and differs from it in not being from the [[hobbit]]s' point of view. Scholars have discussed the tale's themes including love and death, Tolkien's balance between open Christianity and treating the characters as pagan; and the fact that having the tale as an appendix deprives the main story of much of its [[love-interest]].

== Title and publication ==
[[Tolkien]] conceived of ''The Lord of the Rings'' as a single work comprising six "books" plus extensive appendices. 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''.<ref>{{harvnb|Carpenter|2023|loc=#136 to [[Rayner Unwin]], 24 March 1953 }}</ref> These titles were eventually used in the (2000) ''Millennium edition''. 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''. 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.<ref>{{harvnb|Carpenter|2023|loc=#140 to Rayner Unwin, 17 August 1953 }}</ref>

''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.<ref>{{harvnb|Carpenter|2023|loc=#172 to [[Allen & Unwin]], 12 October 1955 }}</ref>

== Contents ==
Some editions of the volume contain a synopsis for readers who have not read the earlier volumes. The body of the volume consists of books five and six. 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 volume ends with a set of appendices and an index, varying in different editions.

=== Book V: The War of the Ring ===

Sauron sends a great army against [[Gondor]]. [[Gandalf]] arrives at [[Minas Tirith]] to warn [[Denethor]] of the attack,<!--5.1--> while [[Théoden]] musters the [[Rohirrim]] to ride to Gondor's aid.<!--5.3--> Minas Tirith is besieged; the Lord of the Nazgûl uses a spell-wound [[battering ram]] to destroy the city's gates.<!--5.4--> Denethor, deceived by Sauron, falls into despair. He burns himself alive on a pyre; [[Pippin Took|Pippin]] and Gandalf rescue his son [[Faramir]] from the same fate.<!--5.7-->

[[Aragorn]], accompanied by [[Legolas]], [[Gimli (Middle-earth)|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 ful<!--British English-->fil their oath to fight for the King of Gondor.<!--5.2--> Aragorn unleashes the Army of the Dead on the [[Corsairs of Umbar]] invading southern Gondor. With that threat eliminated, Aragorn uses the Corsairs' ships to transport the men of southern Gondor up the [[Anduin]],<!--5.9--> reaching Minas Tirith just in time to turn the tide of battle.<!--5.5--> Théoden's niece [[Éowyn]], who joined the army in disguise,<!--5.3--> kills the Lord of the Nazgûl with help from Merry; both are wounded. Together, Gondor and Rohan defeat Sauron's army in the [[Battle of the Pelennor Fields]], though at great cost; Théoden is among the dead.<!--5.6-->

Aragorn enters Minas Tirith and heals Faramir, Éowyn, and Merry.<!--5.8--> He leads an army of men from Gondor and Rohan, marching through Ithilien to the Black Gate to distract Sauron from his true danger.<!--5.9--> At the [[Battle of the Morannon]], his army is vastly outnumbered.<!--5.10--><!-- Please do not make this plot summary any longer, it is required to be short. Thank you -->

=== Book VI: The End of the Third Age ===

Meanwhile, Sam rescues Frodo from the tower of Cirith Ungol.<!--6.1--> They set out across Mordor.<!--6.2--> When they reach the edge of the [[Cracks of Doom]], Frodo cannot resist the Ring any longer. He claims it for himself and puts it on.<!--6.3--> [[Gollum]] suddenly reappears. He struggles with Frodo and bites off Frodo's finger with the Ring still on it. Celebrating wildly, Gollum loses his footing and falls into the Fire, taking the Ring with him.<!--6.3--> When the Ring is destroyed, Sauron loses his power forever. All he created collapses, the Nazgûl perish, and his armies are thrown into such disarray that Aragorn's forces emerge victorious.<!--6.4-->

Aragorn is crowned King of Arnor and Gondor, and weds [[Arwen]], daughter of Elrond.<!--6.5--> Théoden is buried and Éomer is crowned King of Rohan. His sister Éowyn is engaged to marry Faramir, now Steward of Gondor and Prince of Ithilien. Galadriel, Celeborn, and Gandalf meet and say farewell to Treebeard, and to Aragorn.<!--6.6-->

The four hobbits make their way back to the Shire,<!--6.7--> only to find that it has been taken over by men directed by "Sharkey" (whom they later discover to be Saruman). The hobbits, led by Merry, raise a rebellion and [[The Scouring of the Shire|scour the Shire]] of Sharkey's evil. Gríma Wormtongue turns on Saruman and kills him in front of [[Bag End]], Frodo's home. He is killed in turn by hobbit archers.<!--6.8--> Merry and Pippin are celebrated as heroes. Sam marries Rosie Cotton and uses his gifts from Galadriel to help heal the Shire. But Frodo is still wounded in body and spirit, having borne the Ring for so long. A few years later, in the company of Bilbo and Gandalf, Frodo sails from the [[Grey Havens]] west over the Sea to the [[Undying Lands]] to find peace.<!--6.9--><!-- Please do not make this plot summary any longer, it is required to be short. Thank you -->

=== Appendices ===

{{further|Editorial framing of The Lord of the Rings}}

The appendices outline more details of the history, cultures, [[Tolkien's Middle-earth family trees|genealogies]], and [[Languages constructed by J. R. R. Tolkien|languages]] that Tolkien imagined for the peoples of Middle-earth. They provide background details for the narrative, with much detail for Tolkien fans who want to know more about the stories.

==== "Annals of the Kings and Rulers" ====

Provides extensive background to the larger world of Middle-earth, with brief overviews of the events of the first two Ages of the world, and then more detailed histories of the nations of Men in Gondor and Rohan, as well as a history of the royal Dwarvish line of Durin during the Third Age.

The embedded "[[The Tale of Aragorn and Arwen|Tale of Aragorn and Arwen]]" tells how it happened that an immortal elf came to marry a man, as told in the main story, which Arwen's ancestor [[Lúthien]] had done in the [[First Age]], giving up her immortality.

==== "The Tale of Years" (Chronology of the Westlands) ====

Provides a timeline of events throughout the series, and ancient events affecting the narrative, and in lesser detail, it gives the stories' context in the fictional chronology of the larger mythology.

It tells that Sam gives his daughter Elanor the fictional ''[[Red Book of Westmarch]]'' – which contains the autobiographical stories of Bilbo's adventures at the opening of the war, and Frodo's role in the full-on War of the Ring, and serves as Tolkien's source for ''The Hobbit'' and ''The Lord of the Rings'' (with Tolkien representing himself as a translator, rather than an [[epic novel]]ist). It says that there was "a tradition" that after handing over the book, Sam crossed west over the sea himself, the last of the ring-bearers; and that some years later, after the deaths of Aragorn and Arwen, Legolas and Gimli also sailed together "over Sea".

==== "Family Trees" (Hobbits) ====

Gives [[hobbit]] genealogies – not only for Bilbo and Frodo's Baggins family, but also their relations the Tooks and Brandybucks, which connect them to Pippin and Merry.

==== "Calendars" ====

Describes some of the calendars used by the characters in the story, and explains that the Roman month names in the text are "translations" of the names in the hobbits' calendar. (Tolkien was a linguist, and provided Germanic-sounding names for the hobbit calendar by extrapolating names of [[Early Germanic calendars|German and Old English months]] forward to what he thought they might have become if all were still used in modern English, as ''Yule'' and ''Easter'' are.)

==== "Writing and Spelling" ====

Describes dwarves' runes and the elvish runes used by the other peoples of Middle-earth; the names of the runes and letters incidentally give some information about dwarvish and elvish languages.

{{anchor|On Translation}}

==== "Languages and Peoples of the Third Age" and "On Translation" ====

Presented as two sections. In addition to outlines of the various languages in current use during the narrative, and mentioned or seen in the story, it discusses hobbits' names at length. It sorts out names which Tolkien [[Pseudotranslation in The Lord of the Rings|pretended to have translated into English]], and names which he said he had left in their original form (since they had no meaning in hobbits' everyday language).

== Reception ==

=== Of the volume ===
<!--reviews from the 1950s that apply specifically TO THIS VOLUME-->

{{further|Literary reception of The Lord of the Rings}}

In a review for ''[[The New York Times]]'', the poet [[W. H. Auden]] praised ''The Return of the King'' and found ''The Lord of the Rings'' a "masterpiece of the genre".<ref>{{cite web |first=W. H. |last=Auden |author-link=W. H. Auden |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1956/01/22/books/tolkien-king.html |title=At the end of the Quest, Victory |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=22 January 1956}}</ref>
The science fiction author and critic [[Anthony Boucher]], in a review for ''[[The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction]]'', praised the volume as "a masterly narration of tremendous and terrible climactic events", but wrote that Tolkien's prose "seems sometimes to be protracted for its own sake".<ref>{{cite journal |last=Boucher |first=Anthony |author-link=Anthony Boucher |title=Recommended Reading |journal=[[The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction|F&SF]] |issue=July 1956 |year=1956 |page=92}}</ref>
The author [[Anthony Price]], reviewing the novel for ''[[The Oxford Mail]]'', called it "more than immense; it is complete", praising Tolkien's Middle-earth as "an absolutely real and unendingly exciting world". He admired the characterization of [[Tom Bombadil]], the [[Ent]]s, and [[Gollum]]. In his view, the [[One Ring]] was destroyed "with terrifying logic", though he did not demand that the text end there, noting that the hobbits' return to [[the Shire]] put the larger events in perspective.<ref>{{cite news |last=Price |first=Anthony |author-link=Anthony Price |title=Exciting, Enchanting, Inspiring |work=[[The Oxford Mail]] |date=20 October 1955}}</ref><ref name="Thompson 1985"/>

The novelist and publisher [[Michael Straight]], reviewing the whole of ''The Lord of the Rings'' in ''The New Republic'', wrote that the devastated landscapes in the work [[The Great War and Middle-earth|recalled Tolkien's First World War experiences]], just as the snowstorm in the [[Misty Mountains]] recalled his climbing trip in Switzerland, and [[England in Middle-earth|the Shire reflected England]]. He concluded by calling the novel a work of genius.<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Straight |first=Michael |author-link=Michael Straight |title=The Fantastic World of Professor Tolkien |magazine=The New Republic |date=16 January 1956 |issue=134 |pages=24–26}}</ref><ref name="Thompson 1985"/>

The Scottish poet and critic [[Edwin Muir]], who had praised ''The Fellowship of the Ring'' in 1954,<ref name="Muir 1954">{{Cite news |last=Muir |first=Edwin |author-link=Edwin Muir |date=22 August 1954 |title=Review: The Fellowship of the Ring |work=[[The Observer]]}}</ref> attacked the completed book in 1955 in ''[[The Sunday Observer]]'' as "a boy's adventure story".<ref name="Muir 1955"/> He compared it to the works of [[Rider Haggard]], and stated that "except for a few old wizards", all the characters "are boys masquerading as adult[s]".<ref name="Muir 1955">{{cite news |last=Muir |first=Edwin |author-link=Edwin Muir |title=A Boy's World |newspaper=The Sunday Observer |date=27 November 1955 |page=11}}</ref><ref name="Thompson 1985">{{cite journal |last=Thompson |first=George H. |title=Early Review of Books by J.R.R. Tolkien: Part III |journal=[[Mythlore]] |date=1985 |volume=12 |issue=1 |pages=58–63 (article 12) |url=https://dc.swosu.edu/mythlore/vol12/iss1/12}}</ref>

=== Of "The Scouring of the Shire" ===

[[File:Scouring of the Shire Narrative Arcs.svg|thumb|upright=1.55|Formal structure of ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'': [[narrative arc]]s balancing the main text on [[Quests in Middle-earth|the quest]] to destroy the [[One Ring]] in [[Mordor]] with ''[[The Scouring of the Shire]]''{{sfn|Birns|2012}}]]

{{main|The Scouring of the Shire}}

Critics have considered the volume's penultimate chapter, "The Scouring of the Shire", the most important chapter in the whole of ''The Lord of the Rings''.{{sfn|Hirsch|2014}}{{sfn|Birns|2012}}{{sfn|Waito|2010}} Although Tolkien denied that the chapter was an [[allegory]] for Britain in the [[aftermath of World War II]], commentators have argued that it can be applied to that period,{{sfn|Donnelly|2018}} with clear contemporary political references that include a [[satire]] of [[socialism]],{{sfn|Richards|Witt|2014|p=138}}{{sfn|Colebatch|1989}}{{sfn|Colebatch|2007}}{{sfn|Shippey|2001|pp=166–168}} echoes of [[Nazism]], allusions to the shortages in postwar Britain, and a strand of [[environmentalism]].{{sfn|Dickerson|Evans|2006|pp=xvii–xviii, 215–234}}{{sfn|Kocher|1974|p=28}}  According to Tolkien, the idea of such a chapter was planned from the outset as part of the overall [[Narrative structure of The Lord of the Rings|formal structure of ''The Lord of the Rings'']], though its details were not worked out until much later. The chapter was intended to counterbalance the larger plot, concerning the physical journey to destroy the [[One Ring]], with a moral [[Quests in Middle-earth|quest]] upon the return home, to purify the Shire and to take personal responsibility. Tolkien considered other identities for the wicked Sharkey before settling on Saruman late in his composition process.{{sfn|Hirsch|2014}}{{sfn|Birns|2012}} The chapter has been called one of the most famous [[Anticlimax (narrative)|anticlimax]]es in literature.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Attebery |first=Brian |author-link=Brian Attebery |title=Introduction: In Praise of Anticlimaxes |journal=[[Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts]] |date=2012 |volume=23 |issue=1 |pages=1–3}}</ref>

=== Of "The Tale of Aragorn and Arwen" ===
{{main|The Tale of Aragorn and Arwen}}

Tolkien called "The Tale of Aragorn and Arwen", in the appendices at the end of the volume, "really essential to the story".<ref name="Hammond Scull 2006 p488">{{cite book | title=[[The J.R.R. Tolkien Companion and Guide]] |last1=Hammond |first1=Wayne G. |author1-link=Wayne G. Hammond |last2=Scull |first2=Christina |author2-link=Christina Scull | publisher=[[HarperCollins]] |year=2006 |isbn=978-0-618-39113-4 |page=488 |volume=Chronology}}</ref> In contrast to the non-narrative appendices it extends the main story of the book to cover events both before and after it, one reason it would not fit in the main text.<ref name="App B" group=T>{{cite book |last=Tolkien |first=J. R. R. |author-link=J. R. R. Tolkien |title=[[The Lord of the Rings]] |chapter=Appendix B: The Tale of Years (Chronology of the Westlands)}}</ref><ref name="Bowman 2006">{{cite journal |last=Bowman |first=Mary R. |title=The Story Was Already Written: Narrative Theory in "The Lord of the Rings" |journal=Narrative |date=October 2006 |volume=14 |issue=3 |pages=272–293 |doi=10.1353/nar.2006.0010 |jstor=20107391|s2cid=162244172 }}</ref> Tolkien gave another reason for its exclusion, namely that the main text is told from the hobbits' point of view.<ref name="Letters #186" group=T>{{ME-ref|Letters|#186, p. 246}}</ref> The tale to some extent mirrors the "[[Tale of Beren and Lúthien]]", also a story of the love between a Man and an Elf, set in an earlier age of [[Middle-earth]]. This creates [[Impression of depth in The Lord of the Rings|a feeling of historical depth]], in what scholars note is an approach similar to that of [[Dante]] in his ''[[Inferno (Dante)|Inferno]]''.<ref name="Bowman 2006"/> Aspects of the tale discussed by scholars include the nature of love and death;<ref name="West 2006">{{cite book |last=West |first=Richard C. |author-link=Richard C. West |chapter='Her Choice Was Made and Her Doom Appointed': Tragedy and Divine Comedy in the Tale of Aragorn and Arwen |title=The Lord of the Rings, 1954-2004: Scholarship in Honor of Richard E. Blackwelder |editor1=Hammond, Wayne G. |editor1-link=Wayne G. Hammond |editor2=Scull, Christina |editor2-link=Christina Scull |publisher=[[Marquette University Press]] |year=2006 |isbn=0-87462-018-X |oclc=298788493 |pages=317–329}}</ref><ref name="Davis 2013">{{cite book |last=Davis |first=Bill |editor1-last=Bassham |editor1-first=Gregory |editor2-last=Bronson |editor2-first=Eric |chapter=Choosing to Die: The Gift of Mortality in Middle-earth |title=The Lord of the Rings and Philosophy: One Book to Rule Them All |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Dw-NAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA123 |year=2013 |publisher=[[Open Court Publishing Company|Open Court]] |isbn=978-0-8126-9806-0 |pages=123–136}}</ref> the balance Tolkien strikes between open [[Christianity]] and his treatment of his characters as [[pagan]]; and the resulting paradox that although Tolkien was a [[Roman Catholic]] and considered [[Christianity in Middle-earth|the book fundamentally Catholic]], Middle-earth societies lack [[religion]]s of their own.{{sfn|Shippey|2005|pp=229–230}} It has been noted also that the tale's relegation to an appendix deprives the main story of much of its [[love-interest]], shifting the book's emphasis towards action.<ref name="Gray 2009">{{cite book |last=Gray |first=William |chapter=J. R. R. Tolkien and the Love of Faery |title=Fantasy, Myth and the Measure of Truth: Tales of Pullman, Lewis, Tolkien, MacDonald and Hoffmann |publisher=[[Palgrave Macmillan]] |year=2009 |isbn=978-0-230-00505-1 |oclc=228503211 |page=102}}</ref>

== See also ==
* ''[[The History of The Lord of the Rings]]''

== References ==
=== Primary ===
{{Reflist|group=T}}

=== Secondary ===
{{Reflist}}

== Sources ==
* {{cite journal |last=Birns |first=Nicholas |author-link=Nicholas Birns |title='You Have Grown Very Much': The Scouring of the Shire and the Novelistic Aspects of The Lord of the Rings |journal=[[Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts]] |year=2012 |volume=23 |issue=1 |pages=82–101 |url=https://www.thefreelibrary.com/%22You+have+grown+very+much%22%3A+The+Scouring+of+the+Shire+and+the...-a0298173246 |jstor=24353144}}
* {{ME-ref|Letters}} <!--Carpenter 1981-->
* {{cite journal |last=Colebatch |first=Hal G. P. |author-link=Hal Colebatch (author) |title=Tolkien and his critics |journal=Quadrant |volume=33 |issue=10 |date=October 1989 |pages=62–67 |issn=0033-5002}}
* {{cite encyclopedia |last=Colebatch |first=Hal G. P. |author-link=Hal Colebatch (author) |title=Communism |encyclopedia=[[The J. R. R. Tolkien Encyclopedia|The J. R. R. Tolkien Encyclopedia: Scholarship and Critical Assessment]] |editor-last=Drout |editor-first=Michael |editor-link=Michael D. C. Drout |publisher=[[CRC Press]]/[[Taylor & Francis]] |year=2007 |pages=108–109}}
* {{cite book |last1=Dickerson |first1=Matthew |author-link=Matthew Dickerson |last2=Evans |first2=Jonathan |author2-link=Jonathan Evans (scholar) |title=Ents, Elves, and Eriador: The Environmental Vision of J.R.R. Tolkien |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lwidpxMe-AIC |year=2006 |publisher=University Press of Kentucky |isbn=0-8131-7159-8 |pages=215–234}}
* {{cite journal |last=Donnelly |first=Jerome |year=2018 |title=Nazis in the Shire: Tolkien and Satire |journal=[[Mythlore]] |volume=37 |number=1 |url=https://dc.swosu.edu/mythlore/vol37/iss1/6 |at=Article 6}}
* {{cite journal |last=Hirsch |first=Bernhard |date=2014-11-27 |title=After the "end of all things": The Long Return Home to the Shire |url=https://muse.jhu.edu/article/562217 |journal=[[Tolkien Studies]] |volume=11 |issue=11 |pages=77–107 |doi=10.1353/tks.2014.0015 |s2cid=170501504 |issn=1547-3163|url-access=subscription }}
* {{cite book |last=Kocher |first=Paul H. |author-link=Paul H. Kocher |title=Master of Middle-earth: The Achievement of J.R.R. Tolkien |title-link=Master of Middle-earth |date=1974 |orig-year=1972 |publisher=[[Penguin Books]] |isbn=978-0-14-003877-4}}
* {{cite book |last1=Richards |first1=Jay |author1-link=Jay Richards |last2=Witt |first2=Jonathan |chapter=The Scouring of the Shire<!--a chapter on the chapter--> |title=The Hobbit Party: The Vision of Freedom That Tolkien Got, and the West Forgot |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TdDhBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA138 |year=2014 |publisher=[[Ignatius Press]] |isbn=978-1-58617-823-9}}
* {{cite book |last=Shippey |first=Tom |author-link=Tom Shippey |title=[[J. R. R. Tolkien: Author of the Century]] |date=2001 |publisher=[[HarperCollins]] |isbn=978-0261-10401-3 |pages=219–220 }}
* {{ME-ref|ROAD}} <!--Shippey 2005-->
* {{cite journal |last=Waito |first=David M. |title=The Shire Quest: The 'Scouring of the Shire' as the Narrative and Thematic Focus of The Lord of the Rings |year=2010 |journal=[[Mythlore]] |volume=28 |issue=3–4 |pages=155–177 |url=https://dc.swosu.edu/mythlore/vol28/iss3/11/}}

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* ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20170810203741/http://www.iblist.com/book273.htm The Return of the King]'' at the Internet Book List

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