On this day in 1954 – The Fellowship of the Ring, the first part of J. R. R. Tolkien’s novel The Lord of the Rings, was published by Allen & Unwin in the United Kingdom.
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by atdoru
On this day in 1954 – The Fellowship of the Ring, the first part of J. R. R. Tolkien’s novel The Lord of the Rings, was published by Allen & Unwin in the United Kingdom.
https://i.redd.it/auqvj6k33efd1.jpeg
by atdoru
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Tolkien envisioned The Lord of the Rings as a single-volume work divided into six sections he called “books” along with extensive appendices. The original publisher decided to split the work into three parts.
i wonder who inspired Tolkien for the orcs.
I think my dad still has an original edition somewhere. Might be worth a few bucks by now.