The Lord of the Rings

This article is about the novel. For other uses, see The Lord of the Rings (disambiguation). The Lord of the Rings is an epic high fantasy novel (or 'heroic romance') written by the English academic J. R. R. Tolkien. The story began as a sequel to Tolkien's earlier work, The Hobbit, but developed into a much larger story. It was written in stages between 1937 and 1949, with much of it being created during World War II. Although intended as a single-volume work, it was originally published in three volumes in 1954 and 1955 due to the high cost of paper as a result of the war, and it is in this three-volume form that it is popularly known. It has since been reprinted numerous times and translated into many different languages, becoming one of the most popular works in 20th-century literature.
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