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Imladris was rendered "Karningul" in Westron, the "Common Tongue" of Middle-earth represented as English in the text of The Lord of the Rings. The house of Elrond in Rivendell is also called The Last Homely House East of the Sea, alluding to the wilderness that lies east of the Misty Mountains. [T 1]
Sauron: The primary antagonist of The Lord of the Rings. He crafted the One Ring, and was destroyed upon its destruction at the end of The Return of the King. Shelob: Monstrous spider and last notable spawn of Ungoliant. Smaug: A dragon and primary antagonist of The Hobbit. Slain by Bard the Bowman.
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 .
The Lord of the Rings is a trilogy of epic fantasy adventure films directed by Peter Jackson, based on the novel The Lord of the Rings by English author J. R. R. Tolkien.The films are titled identically to the three volumes of the novel: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001), The Two Towers (2002), and The Return of the King (2003).
[T 3] They are sent by the Valar to assist the people of Middle-earth to contest Sauron. [T 3] The first three of these five wizards are known in the Mannish tongues of the Lord of the Rings series as Saruman "man of skill" , Gandalf "elf of the staff" (northern Men), and Radagast "tender of beasts" (possibly Westron).
[T 1] However, according to the family tree published in Appendix C of The Lord of the Rings, where his name is Bandobras and "Bullroarer" is a nickname, he was the Old Took's grand-uncle, and therefore Bilbo's great great grand-uncle. [T 3] [4] The name Bandobras appears in the abandoned 1960 revision of The Hobbit. [5] (mentioned only)
Tolkien made his Hobbits live in holes, though these quickly turn out to be comfortable, and in the case of Bag End actually highly desirable. Hobbit-holes range from the simple underground dwellings of the poor, with a door leading into a tunnel and perhaps a window or two, up to the large and elaborate Bag End with its multiple cellars, pantries, kitchen, dining room, parlour, study, and ...
Foster attributes the surge of Tolkien fandom in the United States of the mid-1960s to a combination of the hippie subculture and anti-war movement pursuing "mellow freedom like that of the Shire" and "America's cultural Anglophilia" of the time, fuelled by a bootleg paperback version of The Lord of the Rings published by Ace Books followed up by an authorised edition by Ballantine Books. [8]