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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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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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53	!!''The Lord of the Rings'' provides examples of the following tropes:
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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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