Hey there!  I was really into The Lord of the Rings.  Both the books and the most recent movies are really good.
The Lord of the Rings is an awesome epic high fantasy. J. R Tolkien is one of the best writers ever.
I agree!  I've enjoyed some of his other works as well, but the LOTR is his best work.  The movies were great too, they were perfect for the time and didn't overuse computer graphics like so many movies today.
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
J. R. R. Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings" novel as the prototypical modern example of High Fantasy in literature, and the recent Peter Jackson film adaptation of the books is a good example of the High Fantasy subgenre on the silver screen.
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