Who wrote "The Lord of the Rings"?

J. R. R. Tolkien wrote “The Lord of the Rings,” the epic fantasy work set in Middle-earth.

Tolkien began writing it as a sequel to The Hobbit, published in 1937, but the story grew into a much larger mythology centered on the One Ring and the Dark Lord Sauron. He worked on the manuscript in stages from 1937 to 1949 while also teaching and serving as an Oxford scholar.

Although commonly called a trilogy, The Lord of the Rings was conceived as a single novel. Publishers divided it into three volumes for practical and financial reasons: The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, and The Return of the King. They were published between 1954 and 1955.

A frequent mix-up is confusing Tolkien with C. S. Lewis, his friend and fellow Oxford writer. Lewis wrote The Chronicles of Narnia. Tolkien’s work drew on mythology, languages, medieval literature, Christianity, and his experiences of the First World War.