The Lord of the Bands is an impressive high-fantasy book by English author and also scholar J. R. R. Tolkien. Establish in Middle-earth, a place like Planet at some distant time in the past, the tale started as a sequel to Tolkien s 1937 kids s book The Hobbit, yet ultimately became a much larger work. Composed in stages in between 1937 and 1949, The Lord of the Rings is among the very popular books ever before written, with over 150 million copies sold.The title describes the tale s main antagonist, the Dark Lord Sauron, that in an earlier age developed the One Ring to rule the other Rings of Power offered to Guys, Dwarves, and also Elves, in his campaign to conquer all of Middle-earth. From comfortable beginnings in the County, a hobbit land evocative the English countryside, the tale varies throughout Middle-earth, adhering to the quest to destroy the One Ring generally through the eyes of the hobbits Frodo, Sam, Merry as well as Pippin. Although normally recognized to viewers as a ...