Critical Reception
In a review for The New York Times, W.H. Auden praised The Return of the King and found The Lord of the Rings a "masterpiece of the genre".
Anthony Boucher praised the volume as "a masterly narration of tremendous and terrible climactic events," although he also noted that Tolkien's prose "seems sometimes to be protracted for its own sake."
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