The Return of the King

The Return of the King - 1955 novel by J. R. R. Tolkien. This book is the 1016^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of books. Article “The Return of the King” in Portuguese Wikipedia has 33.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 18 references and 8 sections.

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (Portuguese) language version.

Since the creation of article “The Return of the King”, its content was written by 26 registered users of Portuguese Wikipedia and edited by 917 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The Return of the King is on the 1016^th place in global ranking of books on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 263 times in Portuguese Wikipedia and cited 4074 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Portuguese): #5577 in January 2015
• Global: #8264 in August 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Portuguese): #22060 in December 2012
• Global: #12950 in December 2012

There are 37 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2026 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) The Return of the King		53.5062
2	Spanish (es) El retorno del Rey		45.6213
3	Russian (ru) Возвращение короля		40.6971
4	Portuguese (pt) The Return of the King		33.346
5	Chinese (zh) 王者再臨		25.569
6	Czech (cs) Návrat krále		22.5431
7	Polish (pl) Powrót króla		21.7767
8	Turkish (tr) Kralın Dönüşü		21.3694
9	Galician (gl) O Regreso do Rei		20.692
10	Georgian (ka) მეფის დაბრუნება		17.9685

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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

The most popular language versions of the article "The Return of the King" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) The Return of the King		3 748 122
2	Russian (ru) Возвращение короля		242 289
3	Spanish (es) El retorno del Rey		230 276
4	French (fr) Le Retour du roi		187 803
5	Italian (it) Il ritorno del re (romanzo)		172 449
6	Japanese (ja) 王の帰還		160 971
7	Polish (pl) Powrót króla		134 162
8	Portuguese (pt) The Return of the King		117 650
9	Chinese (zh) 王者再臨		66 336
10	Czech (cs) Návrat krále		59 540

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "The Return of the King" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) The Return of the King		9 780
2	Russian (ru) Возвращение короля		474
3	Italian (it) Il ritorno del re (romanzo)		460
4	Chinese (zh) 王者再臨		446
5	Spanish (es) El retorno del Rey		429
6	French (fr) Le Retour du roi		309
7	Japanese (ja) 王の帰還		266
8	Portuguese (pt) The Return of the King		211
9	Persian (fa) بازگشت پادشاه (رمان)		143
10	Polish (pl) Powrót króla		105

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

Language versions of the article "The Return of the King" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) The Return of the King		267
2	Italian (it) Il ritorno del re (romanzo)		109
3	French (fr) Le Retour du roi		58
4	Polish (pl) Powrót króla		39
5	Russian (ru) Возвращение короля		39
6	Norwegian (no) Atter en konge		37
7	Spanish (es) El retorno del Rey		35
8	Turkish (tr) Kralın Dönüşü		33
9	Portuguese (pt) The Return of the King		26
10	Danish (da) Ringenes Herre - Kongen vender tilbage		25

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

Language versions of the article "The Return of the King" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Italian (it) Il ritorno del re (romanzo)		2
2	Arabic (ar) عودة الملك		1
3	Greek (el) Η Επιστροφή του Βασιλιά		1
4	English (en) The Return of the King		1
5	Azerbaijani (az) Kralın qayıdışı		0
6	Belarusian (be) Вяртанне караля		0
7	Bulgarian (bg) Завръщането на краля		0
8	Catalan (ca) El retorn del rei		0
9	Czech (cs) Návrat krále		0
10	Danish (da) Ringenes Herre - Kongen vender tilbage		0

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

Language versions of the article "The Return of the King" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) The Return of the King		635
2	Russian (ru) Возвращение короля		296
3	Italian (it) Il ritorno del re (romanzo)		294
4	Portuguese (pt) The Return of the King		263
5	Indonesian (id) Kembalinya Sang Raja		256
6	Persian (fa) بازگشت پادشاه (رمان)		209
7	Ukrainian (uk) Повернення короля		194
8	Georgian (ka) მეფის დაბრუნება		176
9	Galician (gl) O Regreso do Rei		171
10	Chinese (zh) 王者再臨		125

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic عودة الملك
az	Azerbaijani Kralın qayıdışı
be	Belarusian Вяртанне караля
bg	Bulgarian Завръщането на краля
ca	Catalan El retorn del rei
cs	Czech Návrat krále
da	Danish Ringenes Herre - Kongen vender tilbage
el	Greek Η Επιστροφή του Βασιλιά
en	English The Return of the King
es	Spanish El retorno del Rey
et	Estonian Kuninga tagasitulek
fa	Persian بازگشت پادشاه (رمان)
fr	French Le Retour du roi
gl	Galician O Regreso do Rei
hi	Hindi द रिटर्न ऑफ़ द किंग
hr	Croatian Povratak kralja
hu	Hungarian A király visszatér
hy	Armenian Թագավորի վերադարձը
id	Indonesian Kembalinya Sang Raja
it	Italian Il ritorno del re (romanzo)
ja	Japanese 王の帰還
ka	Georgian მეფის დაბრუნება
ko	Korean 왕의 귀환
la	Latin Regis Reditus
no	Norwegian Atter en konge
pl	Polish Powrót króla
pt	Portuguese The Return of the King
ro	Romanian Întoarcerea regelui
ru	Russian Возвращение короля
sl	Slovenian Kraljeva vrnitev
sr	Serbian Повратак краља
th	Thai ลอร์ดออฟเดอะริงส์ ตอน กษัตริย์คืนบัลลังก์
tr	Turkish Kralın Dönüşü
uk	Ukrainian Повернення короля
ur	Urdu دی ریٹرن آف دی کنگ
uz	Uzbek Qirolning qaytishi
zh	Chinese 王者再臨

Best Rank

Portuguese: #22060 12.2012

Global: #12950 12.2012

Best Rank

Portuguese: #5577 01.2015

Global: #8264 08.2002

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