[HCIsland]

If you count the number of pages from the books he has left to cover (minus The Scouring of the Shire and Apendices) you will find that it is less than the number of pages he had to cover in FotR (minus The Old Forest, In the House of Tom Bombadil and Fog on the Barrow-downs). <P>Add to this that PJ has only one more major character to introduce, Denethor, and his relationship within the story is easy. The locations he has to introduce are pretty minor when compared to the fact that he had to introduce the entire country of Rohan in Two Towers. Story wise it is more simple as well as it builds to a natural climax and the characters are converging as opposed to diverging as they were in TTT.<P>I wouldn't worry. Frankly, I think RotK will be the easiest to put together.<P>H.C.