I've been looking into reading the other books from the Lord of the Rings universe that Tolkien wrote. Where should I start?
The Lord of the Rings is fantastic. It is an by an Engish novel by JRR Tolkein.
Can you tell me what I should read if I want to learn more about the history of that written universe? I think the name of it starts with an s.
Seeing that I have only read The Lord of the Rings I am only knowledgeable on this very subject. I do know it was a sequel to "The Hobbit".
I wonder how The Hobbit was made into three separate full length films even though it was just one book.
The Lord of the Rings
The Lord of the Rings is an epic high fantasy novel written by English author and scholar J. R. R. Tolkien. The story began as a sequel to Tolkien's 1937 fantasy novel "The Hobbit", but eventually developed into a much larger work. Written in stages between 1937 and 1949, "The Lord of the Rings" is one of the best-selling novels ever written, with over 150 million copies sold.
The title of the novel refers to the story's main antagonist
a teacher gave him JRR Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings": "I don’t think I’d ever read a novel before, not even an Enid Blyton. It took me several years to finish reading it, but afterwards, I’d become a different kind of person; one who read novels and might one day write one."
At age 11, he was sent to Corpus Christi Catholic College, a state school that he has called "one of the worst schools in Leeds...My upbringing