![]() ![]() Tolkien felt that the name The Return of the King was too revealing of the plot and indicated to his publisher that he preferred the title to be The War of the Ring. On this day, October 20th, in 1955, the third and final volume of the trilogy, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King was released. The stories have been reprinted many times and translated into a variety of languages. Within each volume are comprised two books. The publisher advised Tolkien that it would be more economically profitable to release the story as three volumes over the course of a year. The first book of the series, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring became the third best-selling novel ever written. The series was written in phases during the Second World War. He was best known for his work on The Lord of the Rings. Tolkien was an English writer, poet, philologist, and professor at the University of Oxford. ![]()
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