The Lord of the Rings, The Return of the King

Aug 27, 2025 7:38 PM

Author:J.R.R. Tolkien,Ian Holm,Michael Hordern,John Le Mesurier,Full Cast

The evil Saruman has been defeated by Gandalf, but in Mordor the battle for the Ruling Ring continues. Wounded by the giant spider, Shelob, Frodo has been captured by the dreaded orcs. Sam, alone and in possession of the Ring, must rescue his master if their mission - to find the Cracks of Doom, and there destroy the Ring - is to continue. Meanwhile, the other Fellowship members are preparing for war against the armies of the Dark Lord, Sauron... Widely regarded as a broadcasting classic, the BBC Radio dramatisation of 'The Lord of the Rings' stars Ian Holm, Michael Hordern, Robert Stephens, John Le Mesurier and Peter Woodthorpe.

Reviews

A book of wonder and nonsense laced with lethal wit

—— Guardian

Without these two books in my childhood I doubt whether my imagination would have developed at all

—— Kate Atkinson

A marvellous confidence in the primacy of the imagination

—— Will Self

Two nightmare destinations. Wonderland and Looking Glass. The more I read these books, the darker they shine.. Carroll operates on language like a cruel, crazy surgeon

—— Jeff Noon

Precise, dream-like, subversive

—— Quentin Blake , Independent on Sunday

The clue to the enduring fascination and greatness of the Alice books lies in language. . .. It is play, and word-play, and its endless intriguing puzzles continue to reveal themselves long after we have ceased to be children

—— A. S. Byatt

Only Lewis Carroll has shown us the world upside down the way a child sees it, and has made us laugh as children laugh

—— Virginia Woolf

That young lady has a talent for describing the involvements of feelings and characters of ordinary life which is to me the most wonderful I ever met with

—— Sir Walter Scott

I'd like to write a play as perfect as Emma

—— Simon Gray

A literary phenomenon on the grandest scale – a work of genius

—— Isabel Quigly

Sublime and sweet melancholy suffuses the story. Beautiful

—— Tim Waterstone , The Week

A delicate meditation on mortality, decay and the fading of beauty

—— Martin Sixsmith , The Week

Historical fiction at its best

—— Orlando Figes , The Week

No novel is perfect, but this small, wonderfully atmospheric and immensely poignant story...comes very close

—— Sunday Times, *Summer Reads of 2021*

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