Starting from quiet beginnings in The Shire, the story ranges across Middle-earth and follows the courses of the War of the Ring.
The story concerns peoples such as Hobbits, Elves, Men, Dwarves, Wizards, and Orcs and centres on the Ring of Power made by the Dark Lord Sauron. Tolkien gave this setting a modern English name, Middle-earth, derived from the Old English Middangeard, the realm where humans live in Norse and related Germanic mythologies. The action in The Lord of the Rings is set in what the author conceived to be the lands of the real Earth, inhabited by humanity but placed in a fictional past, before our science but after the fall of his version of Atlantis, which he calls Númenor. It was originally published in three volumes in 19 (much to Tolkien's annoyance, since he had intended it to be a single volume), and has since been reprinted numerous times and translated into at least 38 languages, becoming one of the most popular works in 20th-century literature. It was written in stages between 19, with much of it being created during World War II.
The story began as a sequel to Tolkien's earlier fantasy book The Hobbit and soon developed into a much larger story. The Lord of the Rings is an epic high fantasy novel written by English academic J. Related subjects: Novels The Lord of the RingsĬover design for the three volumes of The Lord of the Rings
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