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Editorial framing of The Lord of the Rings has proceeded from Tolkien's fictional editor who supposedly translated the Red Book of Westmarch, to his son Christopher who genuinely edited the many draft manuscripts for the book, to Peter Jackson's films which radically revised the story and its focus, and on to a mass of materials by many hands ...
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.
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.
Christopher John Reuel Tolkien (21 November 1924 – 16 January 2020) was an English and naturalised French academic editor and writer. The son of the author and academic J. R. R. Tolkien, Christopher edited 24 volumes based on his father's posthumously published work, including The Silmarillion and the 12-volume series The History of Middle-Earth, a task that took 45 years.
In The Lord of the Rings, Tolkien went much further than simply providing a frame story. The found manuscript conceit, and the claim that he had translated it into English from the original Westron rather than written it himself, put him in the frame with the story that he was the book's editor and translator.
"The Council of Elrond", the second chapter of Book 2, is the longest chapter in that book at some 15,000 words, and critical for explaining the power and threat of the Ring, for introducing the final members of the Fellowship of the Ring, and for defining the planned quest to destroy it.
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.
Book 2 was released on September 10, 2010, in North America. (September 8, 2010 for subscribers). It was delayed in Europe due to contractual reasons, released on 2 November. Updates include (complete release notes): New region: Enedwaith; Lord of the Rings Online Free to Play subscription; Book 2 in the Volume III epic storyline; Scalable ...