Eighteen years later, the wizard Gandalf visits Frodo and tells him about the true history of the ring: It is the One Ring created by the dark lord Sauron, in which he had put part of his own life and power upon its creation. It has since also been published in a single volume, as intended by Tolkien.Īn old Bilbo Baggins leaves the Shire, leaving his home and possessions to Frodo Baggins, along with the ring he found on his adventure sixty years previously.
This has given rise to the mistaken notion of the The Lord of the Rings being a trilogy or a series, although it is neither. Each part was then published in a separate volume, the first two in 1954, and the last in 1955. The Lord of the Rings was then split into three Parts named The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, and The Return of the King, each containing two Books. Tolkien had internally structured the book into six sections named Book I-VI, and Appendices. Upon publication the publisher insisted on splitting the book into separate volumes because of its large size, much to Tolkien's dismay. Lewis, both making critical or favorable reviews about the formation and the content of the story. During that time, Tolkien had his work reviewed by the Inklings and his friend C.S. Writing, re-writing and editing The Lord of the Rings was not easy work for Tolkien, and it was a process that took him over a decade to complete. It was when Tolkien was pestered by his fans and publishers that he decided to make The Hobbit to be part of his Middle-earth legendarium, and set writing The Lord of the Rings to be it's sequel. The Hobbit originally wasn't conceived by J.R.R.Tolkien to part of the Middle-earth legendarium as he intended the book to a children's story, and never as the beginning of an epic tale. The Lord of the Rings at first was to be a sequel to The Silmarillion.The reason for this was that Tolkien, at the time, was working on his Middle-earth legendarium and what was going to be the First Age of his fictional world.
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