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The Lord of the Rings is an epic fantasy story by J. R. R. Tolkien, a sequel to his earlier work, The Hobbit. It was published in three volumes from 1954 to 1955. Two movie adaptions have been made, the more notable being Peter Jackson's trilogy of films released from 2001 to 2003.
The story's name is derived from the Dark Lord Sauron of Mordor, the primary villain of the work, who created the Ruling Ring to control the nineteen Rings of power, and is thus the "Lord of the Rings" that the title refers to. Sauron, in turn, was the servant of an earlier Dark Lord, Morgoth (Melkor), who is prominent in Tolkien's The Silmarillion, the history of Middle-earth.
