*The Hobbit
*The Fellowship of the Ring
*The Two Towers
*The Return of the King

The Lord of the Rings is an epic high fantasy novel written by the English philologist J. R. R. Tolkien. The story began as a sequel to Tolkien's earlier, less complex children's fantasy novel The Hobbit (1937), but eventually developed into a much larger work. It was written in stages between 1937 and 1949, much of it during World War II. Although intended as a single-volume work, it was originally published in three volumes in 1954 and 1955, due to post-war paper shortages, and it is in this three-volume form that it is popularly known. It has since been reprinted numerous times and translated into many different languages, becoming one of the most popular and influential works in 20th-century literature.

The story of the The Lord of the Rings is divided into six "books" and has been published in both one and three volume editions. The three volumes are entitled The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, and The Return of the King.

The story of The Lord of the Rings takes place in the Third Age of Middle-earth, embedded in Tolkien's larger conception of a legendarium about an alternate mythological past of the world

The Lord of the Rings developed as a personal exploration by Tolkien of his interests in philology, religion (particularly Roman Catholicism, fairy tales, Norse mythology and related Germanic, Celtic and Finnish mythology.Tolkien based his Elvish language Quenya on Finnish. Tolkien acknowledged the influences of William Morris and his Huns and Romans, as in The House of the Wolfings or The Roots of the Mountains

The Lord of the Rings has been adapted for film, radio and stage multiple times.

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