The Lord of the Rings (The Lord of the Rings) is a novel by J. R. Tolkien published in three volumes in 1954 and 1955. Taking place in the fictional world of the middle of the middle, he follows the quest for the hobbit Frodon Shiping (Frodo Bessac), who must destroy the unique ring so that it does not fall into the hands of Sauron, the Lord of the Darkness , who created it. Several characters help him, among whom his gardener Sam, the Hobbits Meriadoc and Peregrin, the Gandalf mage or the human Aragorn, heir of a long line of illustrious kings. Following the critical and commercial success of the Hobbit, Tolkien undertakes the writing of the Lord of the Rings in December 1937 at the request of his publisher, Allen & Unwin. It takes it for twelve years to achieve this suite, which it truffles of references and allusions to the world of Silmarillion, a project on which it has been working since 1917 and in which the Hobbit has been attracted against the first intent of his author. O...