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|The Lord of the Rings| - "The English-speaking world is divided
into those who have read The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit
and those who are going to read them." - ― Sunday Times The
story's titular character is the Dark Lord Sauron of Mordor. The
primary villain of the work, he created the One Ring to control
nineteen other Rings of Power, and is 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, the history of Middle-earth. Books and volumes
Tolkien did not originally intend to write a sequel to The
Hobbit, and instead wrote several other children's tales,
including Roverandom and Farmer Giles of Ham. As his main work,
Tolkien began to outline the history of Arda, telling tales of
the Silmarils, and many other stories of how the races and
situations that we read about in the Lord of