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The Return of the King by J.R.R. Tolkien
3.0

The only real problem I have with it is the ending. The major stakes are resolved halfway into the book and much of the rest is overlong. The additional happenings afterward are extremely mixed and made it far more laborious than the previous books. If could have been greatly abbreviated; some of it could have been placed in the very large appendix to facilitate a much more natural ending, too, I feel.