![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Pippin, whose life was saved by Denethor’s son Boromir in The Fellowship of the Ring, swears fealty to the Steward. There they have a frosty encounter with Denethor, the Steward of the city. As the novel opens, the wizard Gandalf the White and the hobbit Peregrin “Pippin” Took ride to Minas Tirith in Gondor. The Lord of the Rings, taken as a single volume, is by several measures the best-selling book of all time, and the novel’s influence on contemporary fantasy fiction is all-pervasive. Following on from the action of The Fellowship of the Ring (1954) and The Two Towers (1954), The Return of the King covers the culmination of Frodo Baggins’s quest to destroy the One Ring coveted by the Dark Lord Sauron, and Aragorn’s defense of the kingdom of Gondor against Sauron’s army. Tolkien’s epic novel-cycle The Lord of the Rings. The Return of the King (1955) is the third and final volume of J.R.R. ![]()
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