I could have saved you some money. The king comes back.
LOL! I read the entire set every year from the first time I got it (it was still “underground, then) until the first movie came out. This is the first time I’ve even tried to read it since then and it’s almost like the first ever.
One strange thing, though...only Gollum, Aragorn and Gandalf have ever had faces when I read the books. Odd. ;o]