![]() 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. 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. 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. It covers events both before and after the main narrative, and differs from it in not being from the hobbits' point of view. ![]() Tolkien described "The Tale of Aragorn and Arwen" as essential to the plot of the novel. Commentators have read into it a variety of contemporary political allusions including a satire of socialism and a strand of environmentalism. "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 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. Auden, Anthony Price, and Michael Straight, but attacked by Edwin Muir who had praised The Fellowship of the Ring. ![]() The volume was praised by literary figures including W. 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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