Concept and creation

17Sep08

Background
The Lord of the Rings started as a sequel to J. R. R. Tolkien’s earlier work, The Hobbit, that had been published in 1937. The popularity of The Hobbit led to George Allen & Unwin, the publishers, to request a sequel. Tolkien warned them that he wrote quite slowly, and responded with several stories he [...]

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