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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 second chapter of Book 2 in The Lord of the Rings contains some 15,000 words. It stands as the longest section within that volume.
  • The Lord of the RingsIn the quiet village of Hobbiton, a hobbit named Frodo Baggins inherits a simple gold ring from his uncle Bilbo. This object is not merely jewelry but the…
  • 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 RingsChristopher Tolkien released the first volume of The History of The Lord of the Rings in 1988. He followed this with three more volumes through 1992.
  • 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 first edition of The Fellowship of the Ring appeared on the 29th of July 1954 in the United Kingdom. J. R. R. Tolkien had originally envisioned his epic…
  • 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…