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The Lord of the Rings. The Hobbit, or There and Back Again is a children's fantasy novel by the English author J. R. R. Tolkien. It was published in 1937 to wide critical acclaim, being nominated for the Carnegie Medal and awarded a prize from the New York Herald Tribune for best juvenile fiction. The book is recognized as a classic in children ...
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien CBE FRSL (/ ˈruːl ˈtɒlkiːn /, ROOL TOL-keen; [a] 3 January 1892 – 2 September 1973) was an English writer and philologist. He was the author of the high fantasy works The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. From 1925 to 1945, Tolkien was the Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon and a Fellow of Pembroke ...
English. Budget. $217–250 million [3][4] Box office. $959 million [5] The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug is a 2013 epic high fantasy adventure film directed by Peter Jackson from a screenplay by Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens, Jackson, and Guillermo del Toro, based on the 1937 novel The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien.
J. R. R. Tolkien 's fantasy books on Middle-earth, especially The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion, drew on a wide array of influences including language, Christianity, mythology, archaeology, ancient and modern literature, and personal experience. He was inspired primarily by his profession, philology; his work centred on the study of ...
The Great War and Middle-earth. The northern part of the Western front 1915-16, showing the Battle of the Somme where Tolkien saw action. J. R. R. Tolkien took part in the First World War, known then as the Great War, and began his fantasy Middle-earth writings at that time. The Fall of Gondolin was the first prose work that he created after ...
Sauron (pronounced [ˈsaʊrɔn][T 2]) is the title character [a] and the primary antagonist, [1] through the forging of the One Ring, of J. R. R. Tolkien 's The Lord of the Rings, where he rules the land of Mordor and has the ambition of ruling the whole of Middle-earth.
Rings of Power. The Rings of Power are magical artefacts in J. R. R. Tolkien 's legendarium, most prominently in his high fantasy novel The Lord of the Rings. The One Ring first appeared as a plot device, a magic ring in Tolkien's children's fantasy novel, The Hobbit; Tolkien later gave it a backstory and much greater power.
The Lord of the Rings (1954–1955) Unfinished Tales (1980) Gollum is a monster [2] with a distinctive style of speech in J. R. R. Tolkien 's Middle-earth legendarium. He was introduced in the 1937 fantasy novel The Hobbit, and became important in its sequel, The Lord of the Rings. Gollum was a Stoor Hobbit [T 1][T 2] of the River-folk who ...