Tolkien, J. R. R. (1997). The Monsters and the Critics, and Other Essays. HarperCollins. ISBN 978-0-261-10263-7. Shippey, Tom (2005) [1982]. The Road to Middle-earth (Thirded.). HarperCollins. pp.129–133, 245–247. ISBN 978-0-261-10275-0. J. R. R. Tolkien did not like it when the word "novel" was used to describe his works, preferring the phrase "heroic romance", but "novel" is commonly applied. [T 20] The Legend of Zelda, which popularized the action-adventure game genre in the 1980s, was inspired by The Lord of the Rings among other fantasy books. [131] [132] Dungeons & Dragons, which popularized the role-playing game genre in the 1970s, features several races from The Lord of the Rings, including halflings (hobbits), elves, dwarves, half-elves, orcs, and dragons. However, Gary Gygax, the lead designer of the game, stated that he included these elements as a marketing move to draw on the popularity the work enjoyed at the time he was developing the game. [133] Tolkien's work, after an initially mixed reception by the literary establishment, has been the subject of extensive analysis of its themes, literary devices, and origins. Influences on this earlier work, and on the story of The Lord of the Rings, include philology, mythology, Christianity, earlier fantasy works, and his own experiences in the First World War.

Kreeft, Peter J. (November 2005). "The Presence of Christ in The Lord of the Rings". Ignatius Insight. Archived from the original on 24 November 2005 . Retrieved 2 August 2020.There is a common theme throughout the work of language, its sound, and its relationship to peoples and places, along with hints of providence in descriptions of weather and landscape. [44] Out of these, Tolkien stated that the central theme is death and immortality. [T 11] To those who supposed that the book was an allegory of events in the 20th century, Tolkien replied in the foreword to the Second Edition that it was not, saying he preferred "history, true or feigned, with its varied applicability to the thought and experience of readers."

Wilson, Edmund (14 April 1956). "Oo, Those Awful Orcs! A review of The Fellowship of the Ring". The Nation . Retrieved 1 September 2012. My dear Frodo!’ exclaimed Gandalf. ‘Hobbits really are amazing creatures, as I have said before. You can learn all that there is to know about their ways in a month, and yet after a hundred years they can still surprise you at a pinch.” Jenkyns, Richard (28 January 2002). "Bored of the Rings". The New Republic . Retrieved 13 February 2011. Gygax, Gary. "Gary Gygax– Creator of Dungeons & Dragons". The One Ring.net. Archived from the original on 27 June 2006 . Retrieved 28 May 2006. The Hunt for Gollum, a 2009 film by Chris Bouchard, [114] [115] and the 2009 Born of Hope, written by Paula DiSante and directed by Kate Madison, are fan films based on details in the appendices of The Lord of the Rings. [116]

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Savigneau, Josyane (15 October 1999). "Écrivains et choix sentimentaux"[Authors and sentimental choices]. Le Monde (in French). Archived from the original on 27 May 2012. These criticisms further suggest, at least to me, that the archetypal source of all fantasy's entrenched racism -- even those books being written today -- is The Lord of the Rings. Those fantasy authors who have followed Tolkien consistently and inescapably embrace his configuration of the races (yes, even those like R.A. Salvatore who try and fail to derail this configuration) and the concepts of good and evil that go along with them, which leads to the stagnation and diminishment of their genre. And that first reading was a revelation. Sure I'd read The Hobbit, but that didn't prepare me for the breadth and depth of The Lord of the Rings. Middle Earth in its grandest incarnation.

a b Reynolds, Pat. "The Lord of the Rings: The Tale of a Text". The Tolkien Society. Archived from the original on 8 September 2006.Classic: Zelda und Link" [Classic: Zelda and Link]. Club Nintendo (in German). Vol.1996, no.2. Nintendo of Europe. April 1996. p.72. [The two program designers Shigeru Miyamoto and Takashi Tezuka were responsible for the game, who set themselves the goal of developing a fairytale adventure game with action elements... ...Takashi Tezuka, a great lover of fantasy novels such as Tolkien's Lord of the Rings, wrote the script for the first two games in the Zelda series]. In early 2023, Warner Bros Discovery announced that multiple new movies set in Middle-earth are in development, and will be produced along with New Line Cinema and Freemode. [120] Audiobooks [ edit ] Yle teettää oman sovituksen Taru sormusten herrasta-sadusta" [Yle to produce its own version of the tale of The Lord of the Rings]. Helsingin Sanomat (in Finnish). 18 June 1991. a b Shippey, Tom (2005) [1982]. The Road to Middle-earth (Thirded.). HarperCollins. pp.74, 169–170 and passim. ISBN 978-0-261-10275-0.

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Because Dungeons & Dragons has gone on to influence many popular games, especially role-playing video games, the influence of The Lord of the Rings extends to many of them, with titles such as Dragon Quest, [134] [135] EverQuest, the Warcraft series, and The Elder Scrolls series of games [136] as well as video games set in Middle-earth itself. Brin, David (December 2002). "We Hobbits are a Merry Folk: an incautious and heretical re-appraisal of J. R. R. Tolkien". Salon Magazine. Archived from the original on 23 March 2006 . Retrieved 9 January 2006. so soon and it would have probably needed much longer to establish the (I´m a sci-fi head, sorry) second best genre to subjugate and enslave them all. U.S. and Canada: "All Time Domestic Box Office". Box Office Mojo. Archived from the original on 4 June 2004.