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8 | ->''Three Rings for the Elven-kings under the sky,''\ |
9 | ''Seven for the Dwarf-lords in their halls of stone,''\ |
10 | ''Nine for Mortal Men doomed to die,''\ |
11 | ''One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne''\ |
12 | ''In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.''\ |
13 | '''''One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them,\ |
14 | One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them'''''\ |
15 | ''In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.'' |
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17 | With those words, [[BigBad Sauron]] forged the [[ArtifactOfDoom One Ring]], the [[SoulJar vessel of his power]] and the pivot on which the fate of [[TheVerse Middle-earth]] would turn for five thousand years -- until the [[{{Hobbits}} most unlikely of heroes]] did the one thing Sauron [[EvilCannotComprehendGood could never have imagined]], and brought his [[EvilTowerOfOminousness dark tower]] [[CollapsingLair tumbling down]]. |
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19 | ''The Lord of the Rings'' by Creator/JRRTolkien is too grand and complex to be [[Recap/TheLordOfTheRings summarised in full]]. Succinctly, it is by far the most recent addition to the {{canon}} of Western epic literature and is the [[TheEpic epic]] which set the stage for the entire HighFantasy genre that followed in its wake. Interestingly, the story was originally intended as a ''shorter'' sequel to ''Literature/TheHobbit'', but as its author famously remarked, "the tale grew in the telling." ''Literature/TheSilmarillion'', posthumously published in 1977, serves as a prequel to this, though its material was first written of all. |
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21 | [[AC:Volumes with Publication Dates]] |
22 | # ''The Fellowship of the Ring'', July 24, 1954 |
23 | # ''The Two Towers'', November 11, 1954 |
24 | # ''The Return of the King'', October 20, 1955 |
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26 | All three volumes were revised in 1965, partly because the book had been pirated by an American publisher. |
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28 | Though it (re-)popularised the {{trilogy}} format for fiction, it was written as one book and originally just divided into three for economic reasons. It has also been published in seven-volume editions, as each of the three original volumes includes two Books and the third also has several [[AllThereInTheManual Appendices]]. |
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30 | Adaptations include: |
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32 | * ''Script/JohnBoormanLordOfTheRings'' (1970) - script for an unproduced film adaptation of the novel by Creator/JohnBoorman, known for taking significant liberties with the source material. |
33 | * ''Series/TheTaleOfTheRing'' (1971) - A Swedish two-part adaptation of ''Fellowship''. Based on and featuring music by Bo Hansson. |
34 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheLordOfTheRings'' ([[WesternAnimation animated]]) -- The 1978 Creator/RalphBakshi [[AnimatedAdaptation animated adaptation]]. Intended to be the [[MovieMultipack first of two films]], [[{{StillbornFranchise}} in vain]]. |
35 | * ''ComicBook/TheLordOfTheRings'' ([[ComicBook comic adaptation]]) -- A 1979 three-shot comic book adapting the Ralph Bakshi movie. Notably, it [[NoExportForYou was never published in English]]. |
36 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheReturnOfTheKing'' (animated) -- The Creator/RankinBassProductions animated adaptation of the third part, a sequel to their own adaptation of ''WesternAnimation/TheHobbit''. |
37 | * ''The Lord of the Rings'' (1981) - Full cast 13-episode radio adaptation produced by Creator/{{BBC}} Radio. |
38 | * ''Series/TheKeepers'' -- A 1991 Soviet adaptation of the ''Fellowship'' (the title is its name in the translation used), formerly believed lost after a single broadcast. In 2020, the studio found a copy and in March 2021 [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vquKyNdgH3s uploaded it ]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLevCLNnLmg to YouTube]]. |
39 | * ''Series/TheHobbits'' ([[LiveActionTelevision TV series]]) -- A 1993 Finnish miniseries based on a theatre adaptation. |
40 | * A low-budget Ukrainian/Russian miniseries ''Series/TheRingsOfPowerOrTheSeventhRingOfAWitch'', made in 1998. Uses the general premise and some plotlines of the novels, but completely changes the setting, characters’ names, races and relationships. |
41 | * ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'' ({{film series}}) -- The Creator/PeterJackson [[LiveActionAdaptation live-action adaptation]] as a film trilogy. The most modern (and, by now, easily the most well-known) versions released in 2001, 2002 and 2003 respectively. Followed in 2012-2014 by ''Film/TheHobbit'' trilogy, his adaptation of ''Literature/TheHobbit''. An anime film ''The War of the Rohirrim'' was announced in 2021, with plans for additional film projects confirmed for 2023. |
42 | * A 2006 musical with music by A. R. Rahman, Christopher Nightingale, and Varttina and script and lyrics by Matthew Warchus and Shaun [=McKenna=], which closed after a year of largely negative reception. |
43 | * ''Series/TheLordOfTheRingsTheRingsOfPower'', a series produced by Creator/{{Amazon}} set in the Second Age as told in the Appendices. It is not in continuity with the Peter Jackson movies. |
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45 | In addition, the books have been adapted multiple times for radio (with a 1981 BBC version as the most highly regarded) and theatre (most recently as the abovementioned 2006 musical, retooled for the West End from 2007-2008). The books and adaptations themselves have inspired various video games, tabletop games and card games. |
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47 | The Harvard Lampoon published a parody titled ''Literature/BoredOfTheRings'' in 1969, which manages to cover the entire journey in under 200 pages. In 1985, Fergus [=McNeill=] and Judith Child released an Platform/AmstradCPC TextAdventure game of the same name, which also parodied ''Lord of the Rings'', but was not based on the novel; one year later, they also released a prequel called ''Boggit''. In 1996, Derek Mason made an online interactive fiction game called ''[[https://web.archive.org/web/19990117004304/www.burton-college.ac.uk/student/~derek/adv1/page000.htm Quest for the Golden etc...]]'' that was also a parody of ''Lord of the Rings'', and of 1980s text adventures in general. |
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49 | '''Please note that this is the page for tropes used in the book. See above for the links to pages for the movies. (And Franchise/TolkiensLegendarium for the Middle-earth verse in general.)''' |
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51 | %% The tropes that a work named is trivia and belongs on the Trivia tab. |
52 | ---- |
53 | !!''The Lord of the Rings'' provides examples of the following tropes: |
54 | |
55 | [[index]] |
56 | * TheLordOfTheRings/TropesAToC |
57 | * TheLordOfTheRings/TropesDToF |
58 | * TheLordOfTheRings/TropesGToI |
59 | * TheLordOfTheRings/TropesJToL |
60 | * TheLordOfTheRings/TropesMToO |
61 | * TheLordOfTheRings/TropesPToR |
62 | * TheLordOfTheRings/TropesSToU |
63 | * TheLordOfTheRings/TropesVToZ |
64 | * [[Characters/TheLordOfTheRings Tropes applied to characters]] |
65 | * [[Characters/TolkiensLegendariumPeoples Tropes applied to entire peoples]] |
66 | [[/index]] |
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