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Allegorical portrait of a knight reaching his princess at the end of his quest.In the background, he kills a dragon. Workshop of Lucas Cranach the Elder, c. 1515–20. J. R. R. Tolkien (1892–1973) was an English Roman Catholic writer, poet, philologist, and academic, best known as the author of the high fantasy works The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, both set in Middle-earth.
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.
Randel Helms's analysis of quest structure in The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings [8] Event The Hobbit The Lord of the Rings; Start From Bag End in the Shire: End of 1st phase: Trip down River Running, nearing Erebor: Trip down River Anduin, nearing Mordor: Approaching the goal: Cross the dragon's withered hearth: Cross the evil polluted plain ...
The ESA write-up for the game stated, "The Lord of the Rings: Aragorn's Quest is the first Lord of the Rings videogame created specifically for kids and their families with accessible gameplay set in a friendly, colorful rendition of Middle-earth. Players assume the role of Strider and embark on his greatest quests from The Lord of the Rings ...
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 2] The protagonists of The Lord of the Rings meet in Rivendell, attend the Council of Elrond, and decide on the quest to destroy the One Ring. The hero Aragorn's sword is reforged as Andúril by Rivendell's smiths. [T 8] [T 10] [T 11] When the One Ring is destroyed, Elrond's ring loses its power, and he leaves to sail for Valinor. [T 12] [T 13]
The Lord of the Rings describes the hobbit Frodo Baggins's quest to destroy the Ring and save Middle-earth. Scholars have compared the story with the ring-based plot of Richard Wagner's opera cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen; Tolkien denied any connection, but at the least, both men drew on the same mythology.
In J. R. R. Tolkien's fantasy writings, Isengard (/ ˈ aɪ z ən ɡ ɑːr d /) is a large fortress in Nan Curunír, the Wizard's Vale, in the western part of Middle-earth.In the fantasy world, the name of the fortress is described as a translation of Angrenost, a word in Tolkien's elvish language, Sindarin, a compound of two Old English words: īsen and ġeard, meaning "enclosure of iron".