I recently finished reading the first book of the Lord of the Rings, the popular fantasy series that's a sequel to The Hobbit. Have you read it?
No, I have not. But I am anxious to read it. How many books are there in Lord of the Rings?
There are three books in the series, written between 1937 and 1949.  They are The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, and Return of the King.
In what time period do these stories take place?
The stories take place in a high fantasy medieval setting, similar to old English stories and lands, only with fantasy characters.
WHo is the author of these books?
J. R. R. Tolkien
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (; 3 January 1892 – 2 September 1973) was an English writer, poet, philologist, and academic, who is best known as the author of the classic high fantasy works "The Hobbit", "The Lord of the Rings", and "The Silmarillion".
He served as the Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon and Fellow of Pembroke College, Oxford, from 1925 to 1945 and Merton Professor of English Language and Literature and Fellow of Merton College
the latter book I was struck by the fact that Gandalf was not much of a person—just a good guy. So I gave Prospero, my wizard, most of my phobias and crotchets. It was simply meant as entertainment and any profundity will have to be read in." Writing in 1973, Lin Carter described "The Face in the Frost" as one of the three best fantasy novels to appear since "The Lord of the Rings". Carter stated that Bellairs was planning a sequel to "The Face