The Lord of the Rings
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Published in three volumes between 1954 and 1955, J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings follows the perilous journey of Frodo Baggins, a hobbit entrusted with the destruction of a ring whose immense power threatens to plunge Middle-earth into darkness. Accompanied by a fellowship of hobbits, men, an elf, a dwarf and the wizard Gandalf, Frodo must travel towards Mordor, the domain of the Dark Lord Sauron, while the fate of kingdoms rests upon his small and seemingly unlikely shoulders. From the peaceful Shire to the ancient forests, ruined cities and shadowed mountains beyond, Tolkien creates a world of extraordinary depth, shaped by its own histories, languages, legends and peoples.
More than an adventure, The Lord of the Rings is a meditation on friendship, mortality, courage, temptation and the corrupting nature of power. Tolkien’s scholarship in ancient languages and mythology lends the narrative the weight of an inherited legend, while his attention to ordinary acts of loyalty and endurance gives its epic scale a deeply human heart. A defining work of modern fantasy, the trilogy transformed the possibilities of the genre and established Middle-earth as one of the most enduring imagined worlds in literature.
From the book
“All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost.”
— J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
On The Lord of the Rings
“This book is like lightning from a clear sky.”
— C. S. Lewis, Time and Tide