Author's Note: For those of you who are reading this without reading the first or second, here's the rundown: I type up a synopsis, and humor Spell Check by changing the real names to the names Word suggests instead. By the way, Nienor Niniel (or Minor Ninnies, by Word), the name "Mithrandir" thoroughly confused Spell Check, and it had no suggestions. This is a mixture of both book and movie, I might add. With no further ado…
The Return of the King in a Nutshell, According to Spell Check
As Ford, Sam, and Glum make their way closer to Mount Doom, the people of Mohan have returned to their village. Vandal, Aragon, Ligulas, Elmer, Gimlet, and Theorem King head for Disregard, Sermon's residence.
Through Merry and Pippin's persuasion, Tree beard and his fellow ants destroyed the tower of Ordnance and released the River Endpin from its dam, flooding the land and sweeping it of the ruin the rocs had left.
Merry and Pippin are reunited with the others, but the joy is short, because Vandal came firstly to Disregard to speak with Sermon, who was in all but a good mood.
The confrontation is not very long, and end with Worm tongue enraged at his master, and throws something from a window above the balcony that Sermon stands on.
Pippin retrieves the object, which reveals itself to be a planter: a seeing stone. Without explanation, Vandal seizes the planter from Pippin, only increasing the helping's curiosity as to what its powers held.
That night, silly little Pippin stole the planter from Vandal and looked into it. He was greeted by the sight of a burning city, and then found by the eye of Sarong, who demanded who he was. That he was a hobbit was all Pippin revealed before Vandal caught him.
Furious, the wizard swept up Pippin and sat him on Shadow fax, his white horse Theorem gave him; the two would go to Minas Toroth, the city Pippin saw in the planter, to warn Donator, the father of Boomer and the steward of Condor, of the impending doom.
The rest of the company followed behind but in not such haste. Knowing that the Rehire would not be enough to fight against the army of Murder, Aragon, Ligulas, and Gimlet, against all Theorem's protests and warnings, head to the Paths of the Dead.
The Paths of the Dead was underground, and inhabited by the ghosts of a cowardly people, who, during the First Age, failed to help Condor's call for aid. Because of that, Insider cursed them to live in between worlds until they answered a call from one of his descendants for help.
They reluctantly agreed to Aragon's request, and the odd company head for Condor.
Back with the Rehire, Merry pledge his allegiance to Theorem King, and wishes for nothing more but to go into battle. Theorem, however, denies his request because he could not keep pace.
Erwin also longed for battle, but couldn't because of her gender. She disguised herself as a man and called herself Darnel, and offered to bear Merry. The hobbit happily accepts, and the Rehire heads for Condor.
In Minas Toroth, Vandal and Pippin go before Donator, and with a feeling of being indebted to Boomer, Pippin pledges himself a servant of Donator before Vandal can warn him not to.
It becomes clear that Boomer was Donator's favorite son, and that he would rather Farmer died. When Farmer first met Vandal and Pippin, Vandal sees a spark of interest in Farmer's eyes as he notices Pippin. Farmer tells them of Ford and Sam, and that the two are being lead by the creature Glum through Corinth Ungodly. Vandal is distressed to hear this, but doesn't explain why to Pippin.
At this time, we should go to Ford and Sam's progress. Glum leads them up the winding stair of Corinth Ungodly, and into the mountains surrounding Murder. In the darkness Glum abandons the hobbits. The two realize they are being followed by something, and she reveals herself as Shelby, an Ungallant and the last of her kind.
She stings Ford, who falls limp and motionless, and Sam uses both the Light of Parental, Ford's gift from Malarial, and Sting, Ford's sword given to him by Bible to defeat Shelby. When the enormous spider scuttled away, mortally wounded, Sam hurried to his master's side, and believed him dead. Knowing the mission must go on, he took the Ring from Ford, and continued sorrowfully on his way. As he was almost out of the mountains, a small group of goblins passed by and found Ford, discussing as they carted the limp helping to the Tower of Corinth Ungodly, that he wasn't dead, bur merely paralyzed.
Realizing his mistake, Sam decides to follow and save his friend, which he does without severe consequence, and the two continue without Glum to Ordering, or Mount Doom.
In Condor, the Battle of the Eleanor Fields has begun. The warriors of Minas Toroth face the army of rocs, men of the Heraldry atop their mammoth Miami- a beast bearing similarities to our elephants, but larger and with three sets of tusks, Nigel riding on their fell beasts, which looks like a combination of a pterodactyl and a serpent.
The lord of the Nigel lands on the ground and the fell beasts throws the horse Theorem sat on to the side, pinning the king to the ground. Then Erwin and Merry interfere, and Erwin defeats the fell beast. Merry stabs the Nigel in the leg with his sword, and the ring wraith is defeated.
Pippin, who stays within the castle defending his king, sees that Donator is making plans to burn Farmer and himself alive. Donator is convinced that when Farmer fell deathly ill but a few days ago, he must be dead. Pippin finds Vandal, and the two hurry to stop this madness. Pippin saves Farmer, but Donator catches himself on fire, and the flaming ball of insanity runs to his death off the edge of the battlement.
When the battle ended, Erwin and Merry are hurried to the House of Healing. Aragon realizes that the only way to save Ford, Sam, and the fate of the world is to march to the Black Gates of Murder and cause a diversion, which the others nobly agree to.
When, thanks to the others' diversionary tactics, Sam and Ford make it to Mount Doom, they meet again Glum, who fights both of them. Sam distracts Glum as Ford runs the last few paces to the Crack of Doom, and after brushing Glum aside, Sam joins Ford.
By this time, however, Ford has been deceived by the Ring, and decides to claim it as his own as he slipped it on his finger. Although Sam can't see him, Glum can figure out his movement, and pounces on him, wrestling and clawing until he found Ford's hand. With no hesitation, Glum bit off the finger Ford was wearing the Ring on, and danced for glee too close to the edge.
Glum lost his balance, and toppled into the heart of the volcano. Sam grabbed Ford, and the two rushed out of the Crack of Doom and onto the side of it where they fell unconscious due to exhaustion, starvation, and dehydration.
Vandal uses Grainier, the lord of the Eagles, and two other large eagles by the names of Renaldo and Sandoval to go to Ordering and retrieve the Hobbits.
After the two are rehabilitated, there is a joyous reunion with the rest of the Fellowship, and many stories are exchanged. Then there is Aragon's coronation to be held, and the wedding binding him to Arden, the daughter of Elton.
After that the Hobbits return to the Shire, where Sam marries Rosie Cotton, a pretty helping he'd long loved. There comes a day, however, when Vandal arrives once more, but this time with Elton, Malarial, and Bible. Ford goes west with them to harbor where Cordon, the ship-wright, will take them to Eraser, the heavenly island Elves go when their time in Middle Earth has ended. Sam, Merry, and Pippin follow to say a tearful goodbye, and when the ship disappears on the horizon, the three return to Hobbit on.
Thus concludes the Lord of the Rings trilogy.