Tom Shippey in The Road to Middle-earth says how “ Boethian ” much of the treatment of evil is in Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings.

Then Wollheim changed everything when he brought out an unauthorized paperback edition of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings in three volumes — the first mass-market paperback edition of Tolkien's epic.

Enya has performed several songs relating to J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, including 1991's " Lothlórien " ( instrumental ), and 2001's " May It Be " ( sung in English and Quenya ), and " Aníron " ( in Sindarin )— the latter two, which she composed, appearing in Peter Jackson's movie The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring and its soundtrack album.

( This time phenomenon is retold in Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings when the Fellowship pass into both Rivendell and Lothlórien, where time seems almost to stand still.

Recent screen versions of Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, and Lewis's The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, Prince Caspian and The Voyage of the Dawn Treader have contributed to the subgenre's continuing popularity.

Examples would be: Tolkien's Gandalf of The Lord of the Rings, Dumbledore of Harry Potter series, Merlin of Arthurian Legends, Lasky's Ezylryb of Guardians of Ga ' Hoole, Brooks ' Allanon of The Sword of Shannara, Eddings ' Belgarath and Polgara of The Belgariad, Feist's Macros the Black of the Riftwar Saga, Jordan's Moiraine of The Wheel of Time ( who at least starts out as this kind of character ), Goodkind's Zeddicus Zu ' l Zorander of The Sword of Truth, Dart-Thornton's Thorn / Angaver, and Paolini's Brom and Oromis of The Inheritance Cycle.

Examples would be: Tolkien's Morgoth of The Silmarillion as well as Sauron, the King of the Nazgûl and the others of the Nine Riders from The Lord of the Rings, Lord Voldemort from Harry Potter series, Lasky's Kludd and Nyra of Guardians of Ga ' Hoole, Brooks's Warlock Lord of The Sword of Shannara, Jordan's Dark One of The Wheel of Time, and Eddings ' Torak of The Belgariad and Zandramas of The Malloreon, Rick Riordan's Kronos of Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Goodkind's Darken Rahl and Emperor Jagang of The Sword of Truth, Dart-Thornton's Moragon, and Paolini's Galbatorix of The Inheritance Cycle.

The first game released was Quest for the Rings !, with gameplay somewhat similar to Dungeons & Dragons, and a storyline reminiscent of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings.

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Created proverb from J. R. R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings on a bumper sticker.

Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings uses the same root word as the folkmoot.

Robert Jordan has stated that he consciously intended the early chapters of The Eye of the World to evoke the Shire of Middle-earth in J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings.

* Sting ( Middle-earth ), a sword belonging to Bilbo and Frodo Baggins in J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings

A soundtrack for J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings was composed by Craig Russell for the San Luis Obispo Youth Symphony.

Gandalf () is a character in J. R. R. Tolkien's novels The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings.

At the time he was cast, McKellen had never read any of Tolkien's works, but he quickly developed his knowledge of The Lord of the Rings and based his accent on Tolkien.

David Salo wrote A Gateway to Sindarin: A Grammar of an Elvish Language from J. R. R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings ( University of Utah Press ).

However, they are sometimes spoken of in the present tense, and the prologue " Concerning Hobbits " in The Lord of the Rings states that they have survived into Tolkien's day.

According to Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, the Nazgûl arose as Sauron's most powerful servants in the Second Age of Middle-earth.

He is the protagonist and titular character of The Hobbit and a supporting character in The Lord of the Rings, two of the most well-known of J. R. R. Tolkien's fantasy writings.

Tolkien's concept of hobbits, in turn, seems to have been inspired by Edward Wyke Smith's 1927 children's book The Marvellous Land of Snergs, and by Sinclair Lewis's 1922 novel Babbitt.

Other features quickly followed and, in 1981, he co-wrote ( with Michael Bakewell ) BBC Radio 4's adaptation of Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, and has also adapted C. S. Lewis's The Chronicles of Narnia and Mervyn Peake's Titus Groan and Gormenghast for Radio 4, for which he received a Sony Radio Award in 1985.

At the same time, Swann was maintaining a prolific musical output, writing the music for several operas and operettas, including a full-length version of C. S. Lewis's Perelandra, and a setting of J. R. R. Tolkien's poems from The Lord of the Rings to music in The Road Goes Ever On collection.

The tale's morality has also been described as uncommon in modern fantasy ; in particular, it differs sharply from Tolkien's heroism of the common man in a fight against evil and C. S. Lewis's Christian allegory.

Those who defend works described as escapist from the charge either assert that they are not escapist — such as, a science fiction novel's satiric aspects address real life — or defend the notion of " escape " as such, not " escapism "— as in J. R. R. Tolkien's " On Fairy-Stories " and C. S. Lewis's quotation, in his " On Science fiction " of Tolkien's question of who would be most hostile to the idea of escape, and his answer: jailers.

Examples are A Song of Ice and Fire by George R. R. Martin, J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth ( where one league is worth 3 miles ), Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time, Christopher Paolini's Inheritance cycle, Tad Williams's Memory, Sorrow and Thorn trilogy, Carol Berg's Song of the Beast, Stephen R. Donaldson's Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, Alexandre Dumas's The Count of Monte Cristo, and T. S.

All of Tolkien's dragons share a love of treasure ( especially gold ), subtle intelligence, immense cunning, great physical strength, and a hypnotic power called " dragon-spell ".

In Miguel de Cervantes ' Don Quixote, the ideal beauty is Dulcinea whose " hairs are gold "; in Milton's poem Paradise Lost the noble and innocent Adam and Eve have " golden tresses ", the protagonist-womanizer in Guy de Maupassant's novel Bel Ami who " recalled the hero of the popular romances " has " slightly reddish chestnut blond hair ", while near the end of J. R. R. Tolkien's work The Lord of the Rings, the especially favorable year following the War of the Ring was signified in the Shire by an exceptional number of blonde-haired children.

While Jackson considers the theatrical releases of those three films to be a final " director's cut " within the constraints of theatrical exhibition, the extended cuts were produced so that fans of the material could see nearly all of the scenes shot for the script to develop more of J. R. R. Tolkien's world, but which were originally cut for running time, or other reasons.

Before the definition of the genre of fantasy, many works that would now be classified as fantasy were termed " fairy tales ", including Tolkien's The Hobbit, George Orwell's Animal Farm, and L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.

When Christopher Tolkien needed an assistant to edit his father J. R. R. Tolkien's unpublished work, he chose Kay, then a student at the University of Manitoba, whose parents were friends of Baillie Tolkien's parents.

The Snergs were, in Tolkien's words, " a race of people only slightly taller than the average table but broad in the shoulders and have the strength of ten men.

In Tolkien's works, the Dwarves ( in the form of seven patriarchs ) were created during the Years of the Trees ( also known as the Ages of Darkness ), when all of Middle-earth was controlled by the forces of Melkor.

In the earliest versions of Tolkien's mythology ( see: The History of Middle-earth ), the First Kindred of the Eldar were called the Teleri, while the Third Kindred, the elves known as Teleri in the published version of The Silmarillion, were called Solosimpi (' shoreland pipers ').

In the early versions of Tolkien's Middle-earth legendarium ( see: The History of Middle-earth ), the Noldor were most often called Noldoli or Gnome.

Their worth, in Tolkien's universe, was close to infinite, even to the Valar, as they were unique and irreplaceable.

In the early versions of Tolkien's mythology ( see: The History of Middle-earth ), they were known as Solosimpi (" Pipers of the Shores "), while the name Teleri was given to the clan of Elves known in the published version of The Silmarillion as Vanyar.

Before the arising of the Sun they were approximately one thousand Valian Years in length ( the exact length of a Valian Year varied in different drafts of Tolkien's texts from close to 10 " Sun "- years in most versions to precisely 144 " Sun "- years in his final estimation ).

After Húrin's deed, the caves were probably completely abandoned, as they fall out of recorded history in Tolkien's fiction, but they were certainly drowned and lost along with the rest of Beleriand at the end of the First Age.

A species of Elachista moths, Elachista gildorella, has been named after Gildor Inglorion by Finnish entomologist Lauri Kaila along with a number of other species that were given names inspired by Tolkien's characters.

In Tolkien's books, it was mostly populated by men, but hobbit servants worked at the Prancing Pony Inn and special hobbit-sized rooms were available there ; there were also some hobbit homes on the hill.

As Tolkien's works were conceived as a fictional " forgotten history " of the world, the Dagor Dagorath represents the coming End of the World, and is often referred to as simply " The End ".

In J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth legendarium, the House of Bëor ( pronounced ) were the family of Men who ruled over the eldest of the Three Houses of the Edain that had allied with the Elves in the First Age.

Several of the Westron forms given above were not published in Tolkien's lifetime.

Tolkien's Orc origin ideas were published posthumously in The Silmarillion, with other versions of events appearing later in The History of Middle Earth.

This usage started among computer programmers who were familiar with Tolkien's writings.

Early works by Abigor were loosely inspired by J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings.