I loved the Lord of the Rings trilogy, have you seen them?
I have watched several of J.R.R. Tolkien's fantasy movies, but not all of them. He is a genius!
Oddly, I could not get into reading the books...I did enjoy the movies.
Yes, the books can be a bit hard to follow. It's amazing that his novel, The Hobbit, led to such a following!
It is pretty amazing.  I remember the books being popular when I was in highschool and then my kids got all into the movies
Yes, I'm sure even our grandchildren will like the Lord of the Rings! The books sold over 150 million copies, so they are up there in being best selling.
I agree.  I had no idea that many books had sold!
a trilogy, the work was initially intended by Tolkien to be one volume of a two-volume set, the other to be "The Silmarillion", but this idea was dismissed by his publisher. For economic reasons, "The Lord of the Rings" was published in three volumes over the course of a year from 29 July 1954 to 20 October 1955. The three volumes were titled "The Fellowship of the Ring", "The Two Towers" and "The Return of the King". Structurally, the
"The Lord of the Rings" as a teenager) and that any similarities between her books and Tolkien's are "Fairly superficial. Tolkien created a whole new mythology, which I would never claim to have done. On the other hand, I think I have better jokes." Tolkienian scholar Tom Shippey has maintained that "no modern writer of epic fantasy has managed to escape the mark of Tolkien, no matter how hard many of them have tried".
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