"Return of the King", by J.R.R.Tolkien: An Evaluation of the Literary Elements

"All the doors of Morannon swung back wide. Out of them streamed a great host as swiftly as swirling waters" (Tolkien 206). A suspenseful tale of good and evil, "The Return of the King", written by J.R.R. Tolkien and published by Ballantine Books, is about a small hobbit, Frodo, carrying the very symbol of corruption, the ring, to the only place it can be destroyed, the mountain of fire. While Frodo attempts to destroy the ring, the armies of two large peoples prepare to wage a final battle in Middle-Earth, with the victor emerging from the wreckage in control of all.…