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The Lord of the Rings is an epic [1] high fantasy novel [a] written by English author and scholar J. R. R. Tolkien. Set in Middle-earth , the story began as a sequel to Tolkien's 1937 children's book The Hobbit but eventually developed into a much larger work.
The critic Bernhard Hirsch writes that "The Scouring of the Shire" has "provoked considerable critical debate", unlike the rest of the "homeward journey" in Book 6. Hirsch accepts Tolkien's statement in the foreword to the Fellowship of the Ring that the formal structure of The Lord of the Rings, namely a journey outward for the quest and a ...
The task of constructing The Lord of the Rings was long and complex, lasting from its start in 1937, soon after the success of J. R. R. Tolkien's children's book The Hobbit, until the novel's publication in 1954–1955. Tolkien began with no idea where the story would go, and made several false starts before the tale of the One Ring emerged.
Both The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings are set against the background of The Silmarillion, but in a time long after it. [138] Tolkien at first intended The Lord of the Rings to be a children's tale in the style of The Hobbit, but it quickly grew darker and more serious in the writing. [139]
Accordingly, Tolkien's decision to include the Baggins and other hobbit family trees in Lord of the Rings [T 25] gives the book, in Fisher's view, a strongly "hobbitish perspective". [15] The tree also, he notes, serves to show Bilbo's and Frodo's connections and familial characteristics, including that Bilbo was both "a Baggins and a Took". [ 15 ]
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 23 February 2025. 2012 film by Peter Jackson The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey Theatrical release poster Directed by Peter Jackson Screenplay by Fran Walsh Philippa Boyens Peter Jackson Guillermo del Toro Based on The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien Produced by Carolynne Cunningham Zane Weiner Fran Walsh ...
The events of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings take place in the north-west of the continent of Middle-earth. Both quests begin in the Shire, travel east through the wilds of Eriador to Rivendell and then across the Misty Mountains, involve further travels in the lands of Rhovanion or Wilderland to the east of those mountains, and return ...
In J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium, the Lonely Mountain is a mountain northeast of Mirkwood. It is the location of the Dwarves' Kingdom under the Mountain and the town of Dale lies in a vale on its southern slopes. In The Lord of the Rings, the mountain is called by the Sindarin name Erebor.