Review: The Return of the King

The Return of the King by J.R.R. Tolkien

My rating: 5 of 5 stars

It’s been close to 20 years since I last read The Lord of the Rings. Today I finished The Return of the King again … and am maybe more impressed now than all the times before. Okay, except the first.

The last time I read these books I was still working as a machinist, hiding the paperbacks in a drawer of my toolbox because reading while the machine ran was forbidden. Since then I have earned a bachelor’s and a master’s degree, h...