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Fantasy novels adapted into films

  • The Lord of the RingsThe Lord of the Rings began with a birthday party. Bilbo Baggins, a hobbit celebrating his eleventy-first year, slips on a magic ring and vanishes from his…
  • The Borrowers (novel)Mary Norton published The Borrowers in 1952 through Dent. This children's fantasy novel introduced a family of tiny people living secretly within the walls…
  • The HobbitThe Hobbit, or There and Back Again begins with a sentence Tolkien wrote on a blank exam paper one day in the early 1930s: "In a hole in the ground there…
  • Charlie and the Chocolate FactoryCharlie and the Chocolate Factory, published by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. in 1964, began not in a writer's imagination but in a schoolboy's hands.
  • The Two TowersThe Two Towers first appeared in print during 1954 as the second volume of J. R. R. Tolkien's high fantasy novel The Lord of the Rings.
  • Gulliver's TravelsGulliver's Travels arrived in London bookshops on the 28th of October 1726, priced at 8 shillings and 6 pence, and within days it had become the talk of the…
  • The Return of the KingJ. R. R. Tolkien conceived The Lord of the Rings as a single work containing six books plus extensive appendices. In 1953, he proposed specific titles for…
  • Don QuixoteDon Quixote, the full title being The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha, arrived in the hands of readers on the 16th of January 1605.
  • The Lost World (Doyle novel)Sir Arthur Conan Doyle stood before the Royal Geographical Society on the 13th of February 1911. He listened intently as his friend Percy Harrison Fawcett…
  • The Fellowship of the RingThe Fellowship of the Ring arrived in British bookshops on the 29th of July 1954, the first of three volumes that together would become one of the most…