Tolkien had made some minor spelling errors, which were printed in the first release of the first two volumes, not corrected until the first print of The Return of the King. In Appendix E Tolkien says that the "English mode" used in the tengwar inscription is not phonetic, but a improvisation between the phonetic values of the letters in Westron, and the traditional spelling of English ("what a man of Gondor might have produced"). The Cirth inscription is according to the mode of Angerthas Erebor, which Tolkien also used to write English (representing Westron) on Balin's Tomb and in the Book of Mazarbul. Herein is set forth the history of the War of the Ring and the Return of the King as seen by the hobbits." " of Westmarch by John Ronald Reuel Tolkien. The sentence follows in the bottom inscription, written in Tengwar: " The Lord of the Rings translated from the Red Book". Cirth is used in the upper inscription of the title page, where it reads: Similarly with The Hobbit, where Tolkien drew runes on the dust-jacket, there are inscriptions in the title pages of all three volumes. For the synopsis of volume 3, see The Return of the King. For the synopsis of volume 2, see The Two Towers. Synopsis For the synopsis of volume 1, see The Fellowship of the Ring. From homely beginnings in the Shire, a hobbit land reminiscent of the English countryside, the story ranges across Middle-earth, following the quest to destroy the One Ring mainly through the eyes of the hobbits Frodo, Sam, Merry, and Pippin. The book's title refers to the story's main antagonist, the Dark Lord Sauron, who in an earlier age created the One Ring to rule the other Rings of Power given to Men, Dwarves, and Elves, in his campaign to conquer all of Middle-earth. The Lord of the Rings is one of the best-selling books ever written, with over 150 million copies sold. The writing began in 1937, and was published in three volumes in 19.
Set in Middle-earth, the story began as a sequel to Tolkien's earlier work, The Hobbit, but eventually developed into a much larger work. The Lord of the Rings is an epic high-fantasy novel by J.R.R. " The English-speaking world is divided into those who have read The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit and those who are going to read them." ― Sunday Times Hardcover paperback deluxe-edition audio-book For a list of other meanings, see The Lord of the Rings (disambiguation). The name The Lord of the Rings refers to more than one character, item or concept.
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