Return of the king sucked

by NomadNomadovic;

"ROTK suck especially the ending, it was pointlessly long where it shouldn't have been, Tolkien built the character of Sauron through hundreds of pages but he and Baradur were destroyed in a paragraph puff!!"

I'm glad to hear that you like most of the book.
Maybe in time you will appreciate more of it.

* Anyway, here is my reaction to your comments.
Tolkien's fiction does not dwell on action sequences.
Gandalf at the Mines of Moria confronts the Balrog and then puff!, he's gone.
Then hundreds of pages later, in The Two Towers, there are a few lines describing the struggle after his fall.

The focus is not on the action. It is with the development of the characters and the grander ideas associated with them.

- With the Sauron character, the events that lead to his downfall span the entire book. It is those pieces of information which can tell the reader that once the Ring was destroyed, that this would be Sauron's immediate undoing.

"and then the long journey and whole battle of shire was really boring and pointless, there was no need to end it like that."

What do you know about war veterans?
What do you know about the concept of a hero?
* In fact who is the hero of LOTR?
- Is it the person who wins fights? That would describe Merry and Pippin. And most of the Shire folk believed they were heroes.
- Is it the one who sacrifices for the good of others? Which fits Frodo's character.
- Or is it the servant that has unbending loyalty and who is instrumental to success? And that would be Sam.
(And there are other characters who could be seen as the book's hero.)

The ending of LOTR touches on these and many more concepts.

* LOTR is entertaining. But it is much more than that.
It is also a book that has many timeless ideas.
And the ending of Return of the King, as the finish to Tolkien's greater myth, references many of those ideas.

BB ;-)

it is just in my opinion - imo - 🌈

I would respectfully suggest that the OP just didn't get the point of LOTR.

"He was one mailroute away from being Cliff Claven"

Wow its like you didnt watch the movie and only heard the ending negatives here and there. There was no battle of the shire also so how did that drag

It didnt need to spend that long on baradur it kept a good pacing throughout

The focus wasnt action at this point put emotional payoff from destroying the ring. And at least be more clear that you're talking about the book you didnt like