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# The Lord of the Rings

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## The Lord of the Rings

The greatest fantasy ever written. A quiet hobbit carries the fate of the world in his pocket.

## One Ring to Rule

J.R.R. Tolkien's 1954 epic follows Frodo Baggins and his companions on a perilous journey across the vast world of Middle-earth to destroy the One Ring in the fires of Mount Doom. Armies clash, kingdoms fall, and friendship is tested to its absolute limit as the shadow of the Dark Lord Sauron stretches across all living lands. A work that invented the template for high fantasy.

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# Reading The Lord of the Rings

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The Shire and the Road

Cosy

"Simple pleasures vanish slowly as the darkness begins to press in."

> Not all those who wander are lost.

Tolkien spent over twelve years writing The Lord of the Rings, drawing on his expertise in linguistics to invent fully functional Elvish languages. He worked as a professor at Oxford throughout.

The book was initially rejected as too long and too costly to print. Peter Jackson's film trilogy earned nearly three billion dollars and won seventeen Academy Awards including Best Picture.

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