The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King Review & Analysis Part 1 (Chapter 1-Chapter 5)

Chase & Josh: Fact or Fantasy

Riddikulus Patronus

Fiction, Books, Arts

5 • 765 Ratings

🗓️ 19 June 2022

⏱️ 124 minutes

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Summary

Rohan survived the Battle of Helms Deep, Isengard's power is broken and the palantír is now in it's rightful place, while Frodo has been stung by Shelob and presumed dead and Sam makes the choice to continue the journey with the Ring alone, until he learns Frodo is in fact, not dead. Today we move forward into the third and final novel in the acclaimed Lord of the Rings series where we are covering Chapter 1 through Chapter 5 (Minas Tirith-The Ride of the Rohirrim). Stick around as we get a look at Gondor preparing for war, Denethor having a power struggle with Gandalf, the appearance of Aragorn's old friends from the North, a secret revealed to the Enemy, a path that none living should take, the beginning of the battle at Gondor, Théoden's fateful decision, and a face to face with the Black Captain and the White Wizard. With Chase & Josh moving into the final installment of the book series, highlighting a few foreshadowed and full circle moments, providing major key takeaways of each chapter, producing evidence of certain opinions, and closing out with intricate debates, you don't want to miss this. "Farewell, Peregrin son of Paladin! Your service has been short, and now it is drawing to an end. I release you from the little that remains. Go now, and die in what way seems best to you."

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0:00.0	Oh, We are here. We have gotten to the final book in the Lord of the Ring series. It's
0:39.8	Chase and Joshua Fact of Fantasy guys and we were very very excited to start the return of the king today.
0:44.0	We're going to be tackling chapters one through five here in part one of this book and
0:48.7	it just is really amazing how fast it went and how soon it seems to us, Chase and I, that we've
0:57.2	gotten to the final installment of this. It seems to me, you know, this flew by a lot faster
1:01.7	than some of the other series and franchises that we've done into this point and so
1:05.4	it's really excited to kind of dig into the first part here of of the last novel and really kind of dissect it and see where the thing you know I haven't read this this novel specifically I don't know since I was 13 14 years old
1:19.2	So it's gonna be really cool to kind of dive back into it get an adult perspective perspective on it, and you know, just kind of see where it takes us.
1:25.2	You know, this is the book that ties it all together and I'm excited to jump into it.
1:30.1	Before I do, I'll turn it over to Chase to say a few words and yeah, we'll go ahead and pass along to him.
1:36.2	Yeah, man, I was impressed with it. I liked it. So far, I mean, you can definitely kind of tell a difference starting with this book on how it
1:46.7	starts off actually pretty action-packed compared to if you go back to the fellowship
1:52.6	and how it takes time for things to really get going
1:55.6	because, you know, we're kind of at the end of this
1:59.0	gear here going up the top of Mount Doom.
2:02.4	Not quite there yet, but we're almost at the top, man.
2:05.4	And it's just been one hell of a ride, and it's awesome.
2:10.1	But yeah, just like you said, I haven't picked up this book since I think it was the eighth grade for me.
2:17.0	I still remember I read these books when the hype was coming out because as I was growing up I was more into Harry Potter because I didn't really know what a lord or a ring was.
2:31.0	And then I found out later on and it just sucked me in from the get-go and here we are man just you know
2:38.9	climbing that trip to the top of the mountain with one tricksy person and two loyal hobbits so well let you take it away man
2:49.7	For sure and let's think about that for a second too because these books are kind of a hard read for most adults and we were sitting here reading them as
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