Book Blog Tuesday.....Lord of the Rings by Professor J. R. R. Tolkien.
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Book blog
day boo yah. As you should know Tuesdays is book blog day were we
talk anything and everything and pretty much run with it. Today's
blog is on the Lord of the Rings by Prof Tolkien.
Lord of the rings is
written by professor J. R. R. Tolkien and began as a squeal to the
Hobbit but evolved over time into its own stand alone book. It was
Published by Allen and Unwin (who also produced the hobbit) on July
29th 1954 in three segments; The Fellowship of the Ring,
The Towers and The Return of the King. Structurally the book can be
separated into six books with an appendices at the end. The book was
intended to be one volume of a two volume set (Partnered with The
Silmarillion). The title refers to the main antagonist the dark lord
Sauron, who had in an earlier age created the one ring to rule them
all and use it to conquer and rule Middle-Earth. The story starts in
the shire at the 11th birthday of Bilbo Baggins and
follows the journey of Frodo Baggins – Bilbos relative and heir as
he ranges across middle-earth all the way to the fires of mount doom
to destroy the magical ring (which Bilbo found during the Hobbit)
during what ended up as the War of the Ring. The story is seen
through the eyes of several characters including Frodo, and fellow
Hobbits Sam Gamgee, Merry Brandybuck and Pippin Took.
Now I own a copy of
the lord of the rings and have done so since I've left school. The
copy I own however is the single whole copy as such I've always
struggled to read the book in one go. Its always taken me a long time
to read it and as such I only re-read it every two years or so.
Whilst I'd known of the hobbit and read it numerous times as a child
and young adult. I wasn't aware of the Lord of the Rings until the
movies came out and as such I came to LoTR through the movies instead
of the book. If you want to know a brief history of Professor J.R.R
Tolkien and my opinion of him have a look to last weeks book blog on
The Hobbit.
The book was turned
into the popular movie franchise by Director Peter Jackson, Weta
Workshop and New Line Cinema. The movies followed the pattern of the
books and were subsequently released under The fellowship of the Ring
(2001), The Two Towers (2002) and The return of the King (2003). Lord
of the rings is widely regarded as one of the most influential and
greatest film trilogies ever created. Its ended up being both a major
financial success and is amongst the highest grossing film series of
all time (earning over £2.9 billion in worldwide receipts). When
award season came around each film was critically acclaimed and
heavily awarded they won 17 out of their 30 nominations. An extended
copy of each movie was released on DVD after the theatrical
release.....I still have my extended copies after 13 years.
I was introduced to
the Lord of the Rings Movies during Secondary school and had spent a
good chunk of my time out of school watching the movies. By the time
I left school a knew a plethora of random knowledge of the Tolkien
legendium at large and as I said earlier in this post I saw the
movies first before I read the books and as such It does make it
harder for me to read the books. Thanks to these movies however I
now own several LoTR related books and have a healthy love of Fantasy
and fiction at large.
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And there
you have it a book for all the ages, definitely under the banner of
world wide mythos. So we'll be leaving this here for today please
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