The Return of the King by J.R.R. Tolkien

As Sam says, the third time pays for all in this trilogy. Perhaps I'm unfair in splitting my review into three parts, as this story works cohesively through all three books. I hate coming to the ending each time (perhaps the reason I keep going back to re-read the books)--I find it very sad, yet completely right. I finished the appendices for the first time out of ten reads, and some were very good--there's a lot of material there. It's still hard to get through all the linguistics, which is my own stupidity, I suppose.