The final confrontation with Sauron is at hand. As the great city of Minas Tirith braces for a siege that could end the age of Men, the scattered members of the Fellowship play their parts in a war whose outcome rests not on armies but on two hobbits making their way through the desolation of Mordor. Frodo struggles under the Ring's growing weight, Aragorn must claim the kingship he has long avoided, and the free peoples of Middle-earth make their last stand against a darkness that cannot be defeated by force of arms. The final volume of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, bringing the great story to its conclusion.