The Lord of the Rings
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The Lord of the Rings is a book written by J. R. R. Tolkien, published 1954/1955. It is fiction (make-believe) taking place in an imaginary world, Middle-earth. It is published in three separate parts, named The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, and The Return of the King. The Lord of the Rings has also been made into several films, the most well-known directed by Peter Jackson.
The plot is about the war of the peoples of Middle-earth against a dark lord (who is the 'Lord of the Rings' of the title). At the same time they try to destroy a ring which would give the dark lord a lot of power if he got it, but the only place to destroy the ring is deep into the territory of the enemy.
The Lord of the Rings is often wrongly called a trilogy, because the publisher split the book into three parts because of its size. Although Tolkien did not want to, he had to sub-divide the The Lord of the Rings into six parts, called Book I-VI, because of the size of the story.
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