The Return of the King

brian sibley michael bakewell j.r.r. tolkien

"As the Shadow of Mordor grows across the land, the Companions of the Ring have become involved in separate adventures. Aragorn, revealed as the hidden heir of the ancient Kings of the West, has joined with the Riders of Rohan against the forces of Isengard, and takes part in the desperate victory of the Hornburg. Merry and Pippin, captured by Orcs, escape into Fangorn Forest and there encounter the Ents." "Gandalf has miraculously returned and defeated the evil wizard, Saruman. Sam has left his master for dead after a battle with the giant spider, Shelob - but Frodo is still alive, now in the foul hands of the Orcs." And all the while, the armies of the Dark Lord are massing as the One Ring draws ever nearer to the Cracks of Doom.

Genres fantasyfictionadventurehigh fantasyaudiobookepic fantasyscience fiction fantasynovelsliteratureadult

200 pages, Audio Cassette

First published October 20,1955

Series

Middle Earth

Places

middle earth,

This edition

Format: 200 pages, Audio Cassette
Published: July 2, 2002 by Listening Library
ISBN: 9780807209103
ASIN: 0807209104
Language: English

Characters More characters

Frodo Baggins

Frodo Baggins is a fictional character in J. R. R. Tolkiens writings, and one of the protagonists in The Lord of the Rings. Frodo is a hobbit of the Shire who inherits the One Ring from his cousin Bilbo Baggins, described familiarly as "uncle", and ...
Meriadoc Brandybuck

Meriadoc Brandybuck, usually called Merry, is a Hobbit, a fictional character from J. R. R. Tolkiens Middle-earth legendarium, featured throughout his most famous work, The Lord of the Rings. Merry is described as one of the closest friends of Frodo...
Gandalf

Gandalf is a protagonist in J. R. R. Tolkiens novels The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. He is a wizard, one of the Istari order, and the leader of the Fellowship of the Ring. Tolkien took the name "Gandalf" from the Old Norse "Catalogue of Dwarve...
Aragorn

Aragorn is a fictional character and a protagonist in J. R. R. Tolkiens The Lord of the Rings. Aragorn was a Ranger of the North, first introduced with the name Strider and later revealed to be the heir of Isildur, an ancient King of Arnor and Gondo...
Gimli

Gimli is a fictional character in J. R. R. Tolkiens Middle-earth, appearing in The Lord of the Rings. A dwarf warrior, he is the son of Glóin, a member of Thorins company in Tolkiens earlier book The Hobbit. He represents the race of Dwa...
Bilbo Baggins

Bilbo Baggins is the title character and protagonist of J. R. R. Tolkiens 1937 novel The Hobbit, as well as a supporting character in The Lord of the Rings. In Tolkiens narrative conceit, in which all the writings of Middle-earth are translati...

About the author

brian sibley

Brian Sibley is an English author who has written over 100 hours of radio drama and has written and presented hundreds of radio documentaries, features and weekly programmes.

In 1981, he co-wrote BBC Radio 4's adaptation of Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings with Michael Bakewell, and has also adapted C. S. Lewis's The Chronicles of Narnia and Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast for Radio 4, for which he received a Sony Radio Award in 1985.

As a broadcaster, he was a contributor to and then regular presenter of the former BBC Radio 4 arts programme Kaleidoscope and the BBC World Service arts magazine, Meridian. He also presented the Radio 4 film programme, Talking Pictures and chaired the radio panel games Break A Leg and Screen Test, and presented several seasons of the BBC television programme, First Light.

The Daily Telegraph radio critic, Gillian Reynolds gave him the accolade "magician of the airwaves".