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Kirill Yeskov's The Last Ringbearer has variously been called fan fiction, a parody, and an alternate account of The Lord of the Rings, from the point of view of the race of Orcs. Laura Miller, writing in Salon, likens the book to Alice Randall's The Wind Done Gone, a slave's retelling of Gone with the Wind. She comments that it "may be the ...
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power is an American fantasy television series developed by J. D. Payne and Patrick McKay for the streaming service Amazon Prime Video.It is based on J. R. R. Tolkien's history of Middle-earth, primarily material from the appendices of the novel The Lord of the Rings (1954–55).
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 Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power is an American fantasy television series developed by J. D. Payne and Patrick McKay for the streaming service Amazon Prime Video. It is based on J. R. R. Tolkien's history of Middle-earth, primarily material from the appendices of the novel The Lord of the Rings (1954–55).
The site is also open to certain original, non-fanfiction works, [40] hosting over 250,000 such original works as of 27 January 2024. [41] A chart of some of the largest fandoms (as of March 11, 2024). AO3 reached one million works (including stories, art pieces, and podcast fic recordings, referred to as podfics) in February 2014.
The episode reveals that the human character Halbrand is actually the Dark Lord Sauron in disguise, [12] and also that the Stranger is an Istar (Wizard). For the latter, dialogue references a line spoken by the Wizard Gandalf in The Lord of the Rings, but the episode does not confirm which Wizard the character is. [13]
The 2005–2010 Narnia film trilogy adapted from the novel series by Tolkien's friend C. S. Lewis were produced due to the popularity of The Lord of the Rings. George R. R. Martin acknowledged that Tolkien influenced his 2011–2019 Game of Thrones TV series and novels about medieval fantasy, while speaking about a movie about Tolkien's life.
The Lord of the Rings transformed the genre of fantasy writing. [3] Tolkien has been called the "father" of modern fantasy. [14] The author and editor of Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts, Brian Attebery, writes that fantasy is defined "not by boundaries but by a centre", which is The Lord of the Rings.