Reading progress update: I've read 100 out of 416 pages.
After "The Two Towers", which was told almost entirely from the view of Frodo and Sam, "The Return of the King" begins with catching the reader up on what has happened meanwhile with the rest of the Fellowship. Gandalf and Peregrin travel to Minas Tirith which is about to be besieged by a great host of orcs and eastern men. Aragorn parts ways with Theoden on their way to Gondor so he may summon an army of the dead. Aragorn has forced Sauron's hand by wresting control of the Palantir from him.
