The Return of the King

What a ride this trip through "The Lord of the Rings" has been. It rightly deserves its title of the progenitor of the modern fantasy epic. It took me through a full range of emotions, even leaving me weeping uncontrollably at the end. Of course, I mean the end of the story, not the end of the appendices. More about them later.

Again, this review contains spoilers, mostly because they can't be avoided in discussing some of the greater parts of the story.

Frodo and Sam, sans Gollum, finally get into Mordor. The weight and temptation of the Ring becomes overwhelming for Frodo. The two hobbits barely have any hope left, but somehow they trudge on, circumventing the numerous camps of orcs and men and traversing the hostile landscape to get to Mount Doom. The rest of the fellowship heads for Gondor, rallying towns, and even ghosts to aid them in the impending attack of the Dark Lord on the White City.

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