the lord of the rings is a fantasy novel have you seen it ?
I have never seen it no! What kind of fantasy characters does it have?
elements of fantasy were in from the beginning, such characters as humans fight against orcs which are goblin like creatures. have you heard of it ?
I have heard of it yes. But what is the significance of the Ring?
a number of races fight for the ring which holds great power, so the humans want to destroy it in a fire.
that sounds quite interesting. is there other movies similar to LOTR?
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
various fantasy worlds.
- In "The Lord of the Rings", orcs and goblins are two names for the same creatures. There is no distinction based on size: the large Uruk-hai of Isengard are "goblin-soldiers of greater stature" (suspected by Treebeard to be goblins inter-bred with humans), just as the diminutive tracker that Sam and Frodo encounter in Mordor is an "orc"; indeed, Tolkien explicitly states in his published works that "goblin" is a translation of "