Middle Earth #3
魔戒三部曲：王者再臨
聖盔谷大戰雖然告一段落，但中土世界的真正大戰即將到來。這回交戰將會決定未來，魔王索倫會不會得逞，又或者是人類將得到最後勝利？魔戒遠征隊分成了亞拉岡、勒苟拉斯、金霹、洛汗國的希優頓；梅里、皮聘；而佛羅多、山姆則繼續前往末日火山，咕魯正帶他們前往另一段未知的命運。
一開始，皮聘因為好奇，把手放在薩魯曼的真知晶球上，讓他和薩魯曼的眼睛直接相通，讓魔王索倫以為皮聘就是保管魔戒的人。為了安全，他們去了剛鐸國展開全新的冒險。
亞拉岡加入了希優頓王的軍隊準備迎接聖戰，金霹、勒苟拉斯也加入其中。亞拉岡從精靈王愛隆手中取得安都瑞爾聖劍後，穿越位於登哈洛上方白色山脈中的亡者之道……這場最後的聖戰，在剛鐸國首都米那斯提力斯外的帕蘭諾平原展開，聖盔谷陷入一片廝殺，戰場上鹿死誰手，勝負未定。
在同一時間，咕魯帶領佛羅多、山姆，終於來到最終目的地──末日火山，但他們二人完全不曉得更多的陷阱和厄運正在考驗這最後的任務。受到魔戒誘惑而日漸虛弱的佛羅多將要做出抉擇……
573 pages, Paperback
First published October 20,1955
This edition
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573 pages, Paperback
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December 20, 2001 by 聯經出版事業股份有限公司
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B0DLT8MK1M
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Chinese
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About the author
Tolkien's most popular works, The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings are set in Middle-earth, an imagined world with strangely familiar settings inhabited by ancient and extraordinary peoples. Through this secondary world Tolkien writes perceptively of universal human concerns – love and loss, courage and betrayal, humility and pride – giving his books a wide and enduring appeal.
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Tolkien was a professor at the Universities of Leeds and Oxford for almost forty years, teaching Old and Middle English, as well as Old Norse and Gothic. His illuminating lectures on works such as the Old English epic poem, Beowulf, illustrate his deep knowledge of ancient languages and at the same time provide new insights into peoples and legends from a remote past.
Tolkien was born in Bloemfontein, South Africa, in 1892 to English parents. He came to England aged three and was brought up in and around Birmingham. He graduated from the University of Oxford in 1915 and saw active service in France during the First World War before being invalided home. After the war he pursued an academic career teaching Old and Middle English. Alongside his professional work, he invented his own languages and began to create what he called a mythology for England; it was this ‘legendarium' that he would work on throughout his life. But his literary work did not start and end with Middle-earth, he also wrote poetry, children's stories and fairy tales for adults. He died in 1973 and is buried in Oxford where he spent most of his adult life.
