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Lauterbrunnen valley, Switzerland. Tolkien travelled in the Swiss Alps in 1911. Ximonic (Simo Räsänen) / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

THE PUBLIC MIDDLE-EARTH ENCYCLOPEDIA

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Tolkien’s books and manuscripts

The Lord of the Rings

The Lord of the Rings is J. R. R. Tolkien’s novel of the War of the Ring, first published in three volumes in 1954–1955. Its six internal books follow the attempt to…