20 August 1954: The first volume of a trilogy in which Mr Tolkien is to tell the history of the ‘The War of the Ring’
This is the first volume of a trilogy in which Mr Tolkien is to tell the history of the ‘The War of the Ring.’ This magic ring, originally forged by Sauron, the Lord of Darkness, was later lost and, by what seemed a strange chance, found by Bilbo, one of those dwellers of the Middle-earth called Hobbits of whom Mr Tolkien has written in an. It was entrusted by him to his nephew Frodo. But the Dark Lord now knew of its whereabouts and his creatures, the Black Riders, are sent out to recover it.
To have created so enthralling an epic-romance, with its own mythology, with such diversity of scene and character, such imaginative largess in invention and description, and such supernatural meaning underlying the wealth of incident, is a most remarkable feat. Mr Tolkien is one of those born storytellers who makes his readers as eager as wide-eyed children for more.
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