He hoped to sketch out a giant mythology that others could appreciate and add to, and they have. He would be even more over-whelmed at the games, toys, and films spawned by the novel, but he would understand the urge to proliferate what he had done. Tolkien knew there was a hunger for heroic myth in the modern world, but he was surprised by his vast success. In the fifty years following its publication, commentators learned to take an objective look at it. From the first, the book evoked strong, subjective reactions. It is a story about how goodness prevails, even in times of confusion and war, when people of integrity hold together. His mythic quest novel, pitting a small hobbit as a hero against the Lord of Evil, holds a unique place in twentieth-century fiction: it is popular culture and enduring literature at the same time. Tolkien was a professor of Anglo-Saxon at Oxford and a scholar of such texts as Beowulf. The Lord of the Rings, by John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, first published in three parts during 19, is sometimes thought of as the first adult fantasy novel, although as a form it has affinity with the old heroic romances that inspired its author. TOLKIEN 1954-1955 INTRODUCTION AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY PLOT SUMMARY CHARACTERS THEMES STYLE HISTORICAL CONTEXT CRITICAL OVERVIEW CRITICISM SOURCES FURTHER READING INTRODUCTION
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