![]() Eventually, Gollum is set loose but is caught by Aragon and imprisoned by the elves in Mirkwood and Sauron sends his fearsome servants, the Ringwraiths, to find the Ring. Gollum, while meandering to look for the Ring, is captured and interrogated by Sauron's minions. Gollum murderously obtains the Ring while fishing and keeps it for nearly five hundred years before losing it, at which point it is found by Bilbo Baggins. In battle it is cut off by Isildur, who claims it, but he is later killed by Orcs, and the Ring falls into the Great River Anduin. The Dark Lord Sauron forges the Ruling Ring of Power in Mordor binding much of his power into it. Adaptations of The Lord of the Rings have been made for radio, theatre, and film. The Lord of the Rings has inspired, and continues to inspire, artwork, music, films and television, video games, and subsequent literature. The enduring popularity of The Lord of the Rings has led to numerous references in popular culture, the founding of many societies by fans of Tolkien's works, and the publication of many books about Tolkien and his works. The Lord of the Rings in its turn is considered to have had a great effect on modern fantasy the impact of Tolkien's works is such that the use of the words "Tolkienian" and "Tolkienesque" has been recorded in the Oxford English Dictionary. Influences on this earlier work, and on the story of The Lord of the Rings, include philology, mythology, religion and the author's distaste for the effects of industrialization, as well as earlier fantasy works and Tolkien's experiences in World War I. ![]() Although a major work in itself, the story was only the last movement of a larger work Tolkien had worked on since 1917, that he described as a mythopoeia. The lands of Middle-earth are populated by Men (humans) and other humanoid races (Hobbits, Elves, Dwarves, and Orcs), as well as many other creatures, both real and fantastic (Ents, Wargs, Balrogs, Trolls, etc.).Īlong with Tolkien's other works, The Lord of the Rings has been subjected to extensive analysis of its themes and origins. From quiet beginnings in the Shire, a hobbit land not unlike the English countryside, the story ranges across Middle-earth following the course of the War of the Ring through the eyes of its characters, most notably the hobbits, Frodo Baggins, Samwise Gamgee (Sam), Meriadoc Brandybuck (Merry) and Peregrin Took (Pippin). The title of the book refers to the story's main antagonist, the Dark Lord Sauron, who had in an earlier age created the One Ring that rules the other Rings of Power, as the ultimate weapon in his campaign to conquer and rule all of Middle-earth. It has since been reprinted countless times and translated into many different languages, becoming one of the most popular and influential works in 20th-century literature. ![]() Although generally known to readers as a trilogy, Tolkien initially intended it as one volume of a two volume set, with the other volume to be The Silmarillion however, the publisher was not interested in the second volume and in 1954-5 printed The Lord of the Rings as three books rather than one, for economic reasons. It was written in stages between 19, much of it during World War II. ![]() The story began as a sequel to Tolkien's earlier, less complex children's fantasy novel The Hobbit (1937), but eventually developed into a much larger work. The Lord of the Rings is an epic high fantasy novel written by philologist J.R.R Tolkien. ![]()
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