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The Lord of the Rings

  • Phial of GaladrielFrodo Baggins stands on the steps of Cirith Ungol. A Nazgûl chases him through the shadows. He feels the weight of the One Ring pulling at his mind.
  • Constructing The Lord of the RingsJ. R. R. Tolkien began writing The Lord of the Rings in December 1937, shortly after his children's book The Hobbit became a success.
  • The Council of ElrondThe Council of Elrond is the second chapter of Book 2 of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, published in 1954-1955.
  • 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…
  • Literary devices in The Lord of the RingsJ. R. R. Tolkien published The Lord of the Rings between 1954 and 1955. Scholars have described its narrative structure as a pair of quests, a sequence of…
  • The History of The Lord of the RingsThe History of The Lord of the Rings opens with a Hobbit who never quite existed named Bingo. Long before Frodo Baggins set out from the Shire, that was the…
  • 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.
  • 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…
  • 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…
  • Tolkien and antiquarianismJ. R. R. Tolkien (1892, 1973) was an English Roman Catholic writer, poet, philologist, and academic who spent much of his career as a professor of medieval…
  • Red Book of WestmarchIn the quiet room of Bag End, Bilbo Baggins sat before his desk with a quill in hand. He wrote the words There and Back Again on the first page of a new…
  • HobbitJ. R. R. Tolkien began writing The Hobbit in 1930 or 1931 while grading student essay exams. He wrote the famous opening line on a blank piece of paper: "In…
  • The Scouring of the ShireFrodo Baggins and his three companions, Samwise Gamgee, Meriadoc Brandybuck, and Peregrin Took, arrive at the Brandywine Bridge late one night.
  • The Tale of Aragorn and ArwenJ. R. R. Tolkien published The Lord of the Rings in 1954 and 1955, placing a story about Aragorn and Arwen within its appendices rather than the main…