Scholars and critics have identified many themes in the book with its complex interlaced narrative, including a reversed quest, [34] [35] the struggle of good and evil, [36] death and immortality, [37] fate and free will, [38] the addictive danger of power, [39] and various aspects of Christianity such as the presence of three Christ figures, for prophet, priest, and king, as well as elements like hope and redemptive suffering. [40] [41] [42] [43] In 1990, Recorded Books published an audio version of The Lord of the Rings, [121] read by the British actor Rob Inglis. A large-scale musical theatre adaptation, The Lord of the Rings, was first staged in Toronto, Ontario, Canada in 2006 and opened in London in June 2007; it was a commercial failure. [122] Hooker, Mark T. (2011). Fisher, Jason (ed.). Reading John Buchan in Search of Tolkien. pp.162–192. ISBN 978-0-7864-6482-1. OCLC 731009810. {{ cite book}}: |work= ignored ( help)

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J. R. R. Tolkien Collection: Marquette Archives | Raynor Memorial Libraries | Marquette University". Archived from the original on 19 December 2013. For publication, the work was divided into three volumes to minimize any potential financial loss due to the high cost of type-setting and modest anticipated sales: The Fellowship of the Ring (Books I and II), The Two Towers (Books III and IV), and The Return of the King (Books V and VI plus six appendices). [49] Delays in producing appendices, maps and especially an index led to the volumes being published later than originally hoped – on 29 July 1954, on 11 November 1954 and on 20 October 1955 respectively in the United Kingdom. [50] In the United States, Houghton Mifflin published The Fellowship of the Ring on 21 October 1954, The Two Towers on 21 April 1955, and The Return of the King on 5 January 1956. [51] Notes on the text" pp. xi–xiii, Douglas A. Anderson, in the 1994 HarperCollins edition of The Fellowship of the Ring. Tolkien, J. R. R. (1997). The Monsters and the Critics, and Other Essays. HarperCollins. ISBN 978-0-261-10263-7. Outside commercial exploitation from adaptations, from the late 1960s onwards there has been an increasing variety of original licensed merchandise, with posters and calendars created by illustrators such as Barbara Remington. [152]Silverberg, Robert (1997). Reflections & Refractions: Thoughts on Science Fiction, Science, and Other Matters. Underwood. pp.253–256]. ISBN 1-887424-22-9. Bogstad, Janice M.; Kaveny, Philip E. (2011). Introduction. pp.5–23. ISBN 978-0-7864-8473-7. {{ cite book}}: |work= ignored ( help) a b Reynolds, Pat. "The Lord of the Rings: The Tale of a Text" (PDF). The Tolkien Society. Archived from the original (PDF) on 3 March 2016 . Retrieved 24 October 2015. The Lord of the Rings has had a profound and wide-ranging impact on popular culture, beginning with its publication in the 1950s, but especially during the 1960s and 1970s, when young people embraced it as a countercultural saga. [144] " Frodo Lives!" and "Gandalf for President" were two phrases popular amongst United States Tolkien fans during this time. [145] Its impact is such that the words "Tolkienian" and "Tolkienesque" have entered the Oxford English Dictionary, and many of his fantasy terms, formerly little-known in English, such as " Orc" and " Warg", have become widespread in that domain. [146]

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Carmel, Julia (15 February 2020). "Barbara Remington, Illustrator of Tolkien Book Covers, Dies at 90". The New York Times . Retrieved 18 July 2020. Derek Bailey (Director) and Judi Dench (Narrator) (1992). A Film Portrait of J. R. R. Tolkien (Television documentary). Visual Corporation. He was a gifted linguist, influenced by Celtic, [24] [21] Finnish, [25] Slavic, [26] and Greek language and mythology. [27]

Shulevitz, Judith (22 April 2001). "Hobbits in Hollywood". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 9 April 2009 . Retrieved 13 May 2006. Galadriel's husband Celeborn gives the Fellowship boats, elven cloaks, and waybread (Lembas), and they travel down the River Anduin to the hill of Amon Hen. There, Boromir tries to take the Ring from Frodo, but immediately regrets it after Frodo puts on the Ring and disappears. Frodo chooses to go alone to Mordor, but Sam, guessing what he intends, intercepts him as he tries to take a boat across the river, and goes with him. Hammond, Wayne G.; Scull, Christina (2005). The Lord of the Rings: A Reader's Companion. Houghton Mifflin Co. ISBN 978-0-00-720907-1. Yle teettää oman sovituksen Taru sormusten herrasta-sadusta" [Yle to produce its own version of the tale of The Lord of the Rings]. Helsingin Sanomat (in Finnish). 18 June 1991. Handwerk, Brian (1 March 2004). " Lord of the Rings Inspired by an Ancient Epic". National Geographic News. National Geographic Society. pp.1–2. Archived from the original on 16 March 2006 . Retrieved 4 October 2006.

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Book I: The Ring Sets Out [ edit ] Gandalf proves that Frodo's Ring is the One Ring by throwing it into Frodo's fireplace, revealing the hidden text of the Rhyme of the Rings. Cassady, Charles (9 July 2010). "The Return of the King (1980)". commonsensemedia.org . Retrieved 2 August 2020. Keep collections to yourself or inspire other shoppers! Keep in mind that anyone can view public collections - they may also appear in recommendations and other places.Hooker, Mark T. (2006). The Feigned-manuscript Topos. pp.176–177. ISBN 978-1-4382-4631-4. {{ cite book}}: |work= ignored ( help) Tolkien was initially opposed to titles being given to each two-book volume, preferring instead the use of book titles: e.g. The Lord of the Rings: Vol. 1, The Ring Sets Out and The Ring Goes South; Vol. 2, The Treason of Isengard and The Ring Goes East; Vol. 3, The War of the Ring and The End of the Third Age. However, these individual book titles were dropped, and after pressure from his publishers, Tolkien suggested the volume titles: Vol. 1, The Shadow Grows; Vol. 2, The Ring in the Shadow; Vol. 3, The War of the Ring or The Return of the King. [55] [56] Elrond's Library – Translations of Tolkien all over the world". www.elrondslibrary.fr. Archived from the original on 1 December 2017 . Retrieved 28 September 2020. I have gathered in my library editions of these books in 70 languages