- Elves, Hobbits, The Lord of the Rings, hope
THE RETURN OF THE KING, which brings to a close the great epic of war and adventure begun in The Fellowship of the Ring and continued in The Two Towers, is the third and final part of J.
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- Author
- J.R.R. Tolkien
- First published
- December 1967
- Pages
- 495
- Publisher
- Ballantine Books, New York, Martins Fontes / Selo Martins, G. Allen & Unwin
- Editions
- 286
- Language
- yid, srp, Polish, heb
- ISBN
- 9788377856826
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“Pippin looked out from the shelter of Gandalf's cloak.”
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (1892-1973) was a major scholar of the English language, specialising in Old and Middle English. Twice Professor of Anglo-Saxon (Old English) at the University of Oxford, he also wrote a number of stories, including most famously The Hobbit (1937) and The Lord of the Rings (1954-1955), which are set in a pre-historic era in an invented version of the world which he called by the Middle English name of Middle-earth. This was peopled by Men (and women), Elves, Dwarves, Trolls, Orcs (or Goblins) and of course Hobbits. He has regularly been condemned by the Eng. Lit. establishment, with honourable exceptions, but loved by literally millions of readers worldwide. In the
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