Work · Novel · 1954–1955

The Lord of the Rings

J. R. R. Tolkien, author

Publisher: George Allen & Unwin
Units: One novel in six Books, published as three volumes

One continuous novel in six Books that its publisher split into three volumes (The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, The Return of the King) for cost and paper-supply reasons. Follows the hobbit Frodo Baggins and the Fellowship formed to carry the One Ring to Mount Doom and destroy it.

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Novel 1954–1955 → Film 2001–2003 · Direct adaptationThe Lord of the RingsPeter Jackson's trilogy keeps the six-Book spine nearly whole while quietly rerouting its people: Arwen absorbs Glorfindel's rescue, Faramir is tempted where the book insists he would not be, and two entire chapters, Tom Bombadil and the Scouring of the Shire, never reach any cut.82composite · editorial

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