How long does it take to read The Return of the King?
The Return of the King by J. R. R. Tolkien takes about 9 hours 2 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 3 of The Lord of the Rings
Previous: The Journey of the Nine Companions Next: The Ring Goes East
About 9 hours 2 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1950. 493 pages, about 135,575 words. Written for children.
19 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 15 hours 4 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 9 hours 2 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours 39 minutes |
The page count is the median across 286 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
THE RETURN OF THE KING, which brings to a close the great epic of war and adventure begun in The Fellowship of the Ring and continued in The Two Towers, is the third and final part of J. R. R. Tolkien's masterpiece, "The Lord of the Rings." In these three books, which form one continuous narrative, Tolkien created the saga of the Hobbits of Middle-earth and the great War of the Rings. Praised by such writers and poets as W. H. Auden, Richard Hughes and C. S. Lewis, "The Lord of the Rings" - that special world of beauty and terror and meaning - holds a secure place among the books that will live. --- Also contained in: - The Lord of the Rings
Subjects: Elves, Hobbits, The Lord of the Rings, hope, fear, magic
