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Concluding the story begun in The Hobbit, this is the final part of Tolkien’s epic masterpiece, The Lord of the Rings. Featuring a striking black cover based on Tolkien’s own design, the definitive text, and a detailed map of Middle-earth.



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‘The story moves on with a tremendous narrative rush to its climax… extraordinary imaginative work, part saga, part allegory, and wholly exciting.’
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‘A triumphant close… a grand piece of work, grand in both conception and execution. An astonishing imaginative tour de force.’
Sunday Telegraph

‘His astonishing inventiveness remains to the end and is continued in a series of appendices.;
The Guardian

The Return of the King

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    A Paperback / softback by J. R. R. Tolkien

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      Publisher Harper Collins
      Imprint HarperCollins
      Published 3 November 1997
      ISBN-13 9780261103597
      978-0261103597
      ISBN-10 0261103598
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      Fiction Fantasy

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Concluding the story begun in The Hobbit, this is the final part of Tolkien’s epic masterpiece, The Lord of the Rings. Featuring a striking black cover based on Tolkien’s own design, the definitive text, and a detailed map of Middle-earth.



      Trade Review

      ‘The story moves on with a tremendous narrative rush to its climax… extraordinary imaginative work, part saga, part allegory, and wholly exciting.’
      The Times

      ‘A triumphant close… a grand piece of work, grand in both conception and execution. An astonishing imaginative tour de force.’
      Sunday Telegraph

      ‘His astonishing inventiveness remains to the end and is continued in a series of appendices.;
      The Guardian

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