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 The Lord of the
Rings is an epic high
fantasy saga by British
author J. R. R. Tolkien,
his magnum opus (disputed
— see talk page) and a
sequel to his
well-received earlier
work, The Hobbit. The Lord
of the Rings was
originally published in
three volumes in 1954 and
1955. Three film
adaptations have been made
of the story told by the
books: the first, by
animator Ralph Bakshi was
released in 1978 (as part
one of what was intended
to be a two-part
adaptation of the story);
the second, a 1980
television special; and
the third, director Peter
Jackson's epic film
trilogy, released in three
installments in 2001,
2002, and 2003 which
starred Elijah Wood as the
main character of Frodo.
For more
information regarding the
fictional universe in
which the story takes
place, including lists of
characters and locations,
see Middle-earth (the name
Tolkien bestowed upon his
world).
The
antagonist of The Lord of
the Rings is the Dark Lord
Sauron, ruler of the land
of Mordor. The evil power
of the work, Sauron
created the One Ring to
control nineteen other
Rings of Power, and was
thus the "Lord of the
Rings." Sauron, in
turn, was the servant of
an earlier Dark Lord,
Morgoth (Melkor), who is
prominent in Tolkien's The
Silmarillion, an earlier
history of Middle-Earth. Read
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