The Lord of the Rings was written by English author and scholar J.R.R. Tolkien. He began writing it in 1937 as a sequel to his earlier children's book, The Hobbit, and completed it in 1949. The novel was published in three volumes between 1954 and 1955. Tolkien's work on The Lord of the Rings was part of a larger mythology he developed, known as his legendarium, which includes other works like The Silmarillion. Tolkien was a professor and philologist who created an elaborate fantasy world called Middle-earth, complete with its own languages and histories
