- The Lord of the Rings, Fiction, Ficción, English Fantasy fiction
Originally published from 1954 through 1956, J.R.R. Tolkien's richly complex series ushered in a new age of epic adventure storytelling. A philologist and illustrator who took inspiration from his work, Tolkien invented the modern heroic quest novel from the ground up, creating not just a world, but a domain, not just a lexicon, but a language, that would spawn countless imitators and lead to the inception of the epic fantasy genre. Today, THE LORD OF THE RINGS is considered "the most influential fantasy novel ever written." (THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF FANTASY) During his travels across Middle-earth, the hobbit Bilbo Baggins had found the Ring. But the simple band of gold was far from ordinary; it was in fact the One Ring - the greatest of the ancient Rings of Power. Sauron, the Dark Lord, had infused it with his own evil magic, and when it was lost, he was forced to flee into hiding. But now Sauron's exile has ended and his power is spreading anew, fueled by the knowledge that his treasure has been found. He has gathered all the Great Rings to him, and will stop at nothing to reclaim the One that will complete his dominion. The only way to stop him is to cast the Ruling Ring deep into the Fire-Mountain at the heart of the land of Mordor--Sauron's dark realm. Fate has placed the burden in the hands of Frodo Baggins, Bilbo's heir...and he is resolved to bear it to its end. Or his own. --- **Contains** - [The Fellowship of the Ring](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL14933414W/The_Fellowship_of_the_Ring) - [The Two Towers](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL27479W/The_Two_Towers) - [The Return of the King](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL27516W/The_Return_of_the_King) - [The Lord of the Rings \[2/2\]](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL27306128W) - [The Lord of the Rings \[1/6\]](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL24170898W) - [The Lord of the Rings \[1/9\]](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL27305953W) - [The Lord of the Rings \[2/9\]](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL27305892W) - [The Lord of the Rings \[3/9\]](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL27306048W)
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Epic, earnest, richly built and classical in form.
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- classical in formformally daring
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- Author
- J.R.R. Tolkien
- First published
- September 3, 2001
- Pages
- 1193
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers, n/a, France Loisirs
- Editions
- 253
- Language
- glg, German, bul, Japanese
- ISBN
- 9780061917813
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“When Mr. Bilbo Baggins of Bag End announced that he would shortly be celebrating his eleventy-first birthday with a party of special magnificence, there was much talk and excitement in Hobbiton.”
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (1892-1973) was a major scholar of the English language, specialising in Old and Middle English. Twice Professor of Anglo-Saxon (Old English) at the University of Oxford, he also wrote a number of stories, including most famously The Hobbit (1937) and The Lord of the Rings (1954-1955), which are set in a pre-historic era in an invented version of the world which he called by the Middle English name of Middle-earth. This was peopled by Men (and women), Elves, Dwarves, Trolls, Orcs (or Goblins) and of course Hobbits. He has regularly been condemned by the Eng. Lit. establishment, with honourable exceptions, but loved by literally millions of readers worldwide. In the
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