Though it (re-)popularised the trilogy format for fiction, it was written as one book and originally just divided into three for economic reasons. The Return of the King, October 20, 1955Īll three volumes were revised in 1965, partly because the book had been pirated by an American publisher.The Fellowship of the Ring, July 24, 1954.Interestingly, the story was originally intended as a shorter sequel to The Hobbit, but as its author famously remarked, "the tale grew in the telling." The Silmarillion, posthumously published in 1977, serves as a prequel to this, though its material was first written of all. Succinctly, it is by far the most recent addition to the Canon of Western epic literature and is the epic which set the stage for the entire High Fantasy genre that followed in its wake. Tolkien is too grand and complex to be summarised in full. With those words, Sauron forged the One Ring, the vessel of his power and the pivot on which the fate of Middle-earth would turn for five thousand years - until the most unlikely of heroes did the one thing Sauron could never have imagined, and brought his dark tower tumbling down. One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie. Seven for the Dwarf-lords in their halls of stone, Three Rings for the Elven-kings under the sky,
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