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Source: Wikipedia. Commentary (novels not included). Pages: 74. Chapters: The Lord of the Rings, The Two Towers, Lord of the Flies, Story of O, The Caves of Steel, The Star Beast, I Am Legend, The Road to Samarcand, Live and Let Die, The Bad Seed, The Fellowship of the Ring, The Horse and His Boy, To the Stars, Under the Net, Jonathan Troy, Lucky Starr and the Oceans of Venus, Question and Answer, The Magicians, Good-bye, My Lady, No Time for Sergeants, Destination Unknown, Freddy and the Men from Mars, Captain Michalis, The Black Mountain, Knight Crusader, Nectar in a Sieve, Lucky Jim, Bonjour Tristesse, The Unknown Soldier, The Eagle of the Ninth, The Stars are Ours!, The Sound of Waves, Brain Wave, Leaf Storm, A Spy in the House of Love, Not as a Stranger, My Brother's Keeper, The Master of Go, They'd Rather Be Right, Sweet Thursday, The Courage of Sarah Noble, No Entry, The Toll-Gate, The Wheel on the School, The Broken Sword, The Mandarins, El fulgor y la sangre, The Wonderful Flight to the Mushroom Planet, Ummachu, Pictures from an Institution, Last of the Curlews, The Blunderer, The Forgotten Planet, The Living and the Dead, A Fable, Leaven of Malice, The Black Swan, Search the Sky, Punchbowl Harvest, The Glass Village, The Hooded Hawk Mystery, Only Fade Away, Confessions of Felix Krull, Three Thousand Years, The Feasting Dead, The Year the Yankees Lost the Pennant, Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit, The Yellow Feather Mystery, Operation: Outer Space, Five Go to Mystery Moor, Noite, Night Walker, Mel Oliver and Space Rover on Mars, The Lake, G.O.G. 666, Brother Man, Smoky Valley, La casa, Henry and Ribsy, My Life in the Bush of Ghosts, Spinsters in Jeopardy, Sayonara, The Scarlet Slipper Mystery, La Boîte à merveilles, Os Subterrâneos da Liberdade, The Starr Affair, The Sky Is Falling, The Descendants of Cain, Mary Anne, The Desperate Hours, Underwater Adventure, La Spirale du temps, Nous les martiens, Le Monde oublié, La Dimension X, L'homme de l'Espace, Sur la piste de Fawcett, The Simple Past. Excerpt: The Lord of the Rings is a high fantasy epic written by philologist and University of Oxford professor J. R. R. Tolkien. The story began as a sequel to Tolkien's earlier, less complex children's fantasy novel The Hobbit (1937), but eventually developed into a much larger work. It was written in stages between 1937 and 1949, much of it during the Second World War. It is the second best-selling novel ever written with over 150 million copies sold. Although known to most readers as a trilogy, the work was initially intended by Tolkien to be one volume of a two-volume set, with the other being The Silmarillion. However, when Tolkien submitted the first volume entitled The Lord of the Rings to his publisher, it was decided for economic reasons to publish the work as three separate volumes, each consisting of two books, over the course of a year in 1954¿55, creating the now familiar Lord of the Rings trilogy. The three volumes were entitled The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, and The Return of the King. Structurally, the volumes are divided internally into six books, two per volume; with several appendices of background material, much abbreviated from Tolkien's originals, included at the end of the third volume. The Lord of the Rings has since been reprinted numerous times and translated into many languages, becoming one of the most popular and influential works in the field of 20th-century fantasy literature and the subject of sev...