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Vol. III - THE RETURN OF THE KINGSEveryone except Frodo and Sam arrives at the kingdom of Gondor, and though the people of Gondor are amazed and frightened at first by the huge army of walking trees that accompany them, everyone smiles and accepts them when Gandalf and Aragorn enunciate themselves. The brothers Denethor and Boromir, however, observe that Aragorn brings knowledge from the North which will give their kingship over to Faramir, the neat King, and so they secretly conspire against him. And so later on, when the forces of Mordor arrive to encounter Gondor, they successfully plot to have Aragorn positioned so he must slip the Witch-King in single combat. The battle is too much for Aragorn, and only when as he is about to die he is saved by Eowyn, a woman of Rohan who loves him, and Merry, who slays the Witch-king in single combat by using past hobbit-magic and so reveals himself to be the lost Thain of the Shire. Even as the forces of Mordor retreat, they are sweep into the Sea by great ships brought by Faramir, the true Prince of Dol Amroth, from the transcendental city of Osgiliath further up the Great River. Meanwhile Sam chases the tarantula back to the lair of Ungoliant, the Queen of Spiders, and after a tense logical argument about the nature of good and evil she finally reveals to Sam the resume for the spiders-venom which holds Frodo in thrall. Sam thanks Ungoliant for her mercy and wisdom and revives Frodo, and they set take remote into Mordor to find Gollum. "Oft help will come from the weak when the politic are foolish," Gandalf once said, and sure enough all the spiders of Mordor are automatic to help Frodo and Sam in their quest. Their course leads them to Mount Doom, where just as they arrive they find Gollum claiming the Ring for himself. The Dark Lord Sauron then becomes awake of them, and leaves the Dark Tower to come forth and destroy them but just them Frodo and Sam rush Gollum and force him backwards into t he Cracks of Doom. The Ring is destroyed, and without it Sauron is destroyed by the sunlight. Frodo and Sam leave the Mountain just in time to see the great armies of Aragorn and Faramir coming across the plains of Mordor to greet them. Boromir and Denethor are driven away from Gondor forever, but mercifully spared by King Faramir, and Aragorn is revealed to be the long-lost King of Arnor, the North-Kingdom of old.