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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 TowersIn January 1954, J. R. R. Tolkien wrote that he was "not at all happy about the title The Two Towers." The book was the second volume of The Lord of the…
  • The Return of the KingThe Return of the King arrived in United Kingdom bookshops on the 20th of October 1955. It was the third and final volume of J. R. R.
  • 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 WestmarchThe Red Book of Westmarch never existed, yet J. R. R. Tolkien wrote about it as though it did. In The Lord of the Rings, the hobbit Bilbo Baggins tells the…
  • HobbitHobbits stepped into the world's imagination on a blank piece of paper, in the middle of a stack of student exams. J. R. R.
  • The Scouring of the Shire"The Scouring of the Shire" is the penultimate chapter of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings. Frodo Baggins, Sam, Merry, and Pippin reach the…
  • The Tale of Aragorn and Arwen"The Tale of Aragorn and Arwen" begins with a moment of misrecognition. A young man named Aragorn is singing in the woods of Rivendell.