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by J. R. R. Tolkien · 1954

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What it is about

  • Middle Earth
  • Fantasy fiction, English

Where it happens

  • Middle-earth

Ages

  • Adult

Awards

  • Prometheus Award

About this book

Its Library of Congress subjects: Middle Earth, Fantasy fiction, English. It is set in Middle-earth.

Reading level: Fiction (HarperCollins).

Where this comes from: Library of Congress · Wikidata · HarperCollins

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First published
First published in 1954. Source: Wikidata, checked November 6, 2026.
Awards and honors
It received the International Fantasy Award for Best Fiction in 1957. Source: Wikidata, citing ISFDB, checked November 6, 2026.
Awards and honors
Wikidata lists the NPR Top 100 Science Fiction and Fantasy Books (2011) for this book. Source: Wikidata, with no reference of its own, checked November 6, 2026.
Awards and honors
Wikidata lists the Prometheus Award (2009) for this book. Source: Wikidata, with no reference of its own, checked November 6, 2026.
Awards and honors
Wikidata lists the Le Monde's 100 Books of the Century (1999) for this book. Source: Wikidata, with no reference of its own, checked November 6, 2026.

How The Lord of the Rings came to be

  1. After the success of The Hobbit, his publisher Stanley Unwin asked Tolkien for more about hobbits. Source: tolkienestate.com, checked November 6, 2026.
  2. When his Silmarillion tales were rejected, he sat down to write a sequel to The Hobbit. Source: tolkienestate.com, checked November 6, 2026. when these were roundly rejected, he sat down to write a Hobbit sequel
  3. The book took him twelve years to complete. Source: tolkienestate.com, checked November 6, 2026. It took twelve years to complete

About J. R. R. Tolkien

Born
Born in Bloemfontein, South Africa, in 1892. Source: Wikidata and the place's own entry, checked November 6, 2026.
Also writes as
J. R. R. Tolkien has also published as Oxymore. Source: Wikidata, citing tolkiensociety.org, checked November 6, 2026.
Awards and honors
J. R. R. Tolkien was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1957. Source: Wikidata, citing tolkiensociety.org, checked November 6, 2026.

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