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''Seven for the Dwarf-lords in their halls of stone,''
''Nine for Mortal Men doomed to die,''
''One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne''
''In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.''
'''''One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them,'''''
'''''One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them'''''
''In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie."'' }}
With those words, [[Big Bad|Sauron]] forged the [[Artifact of Doom|One Ring]], the [[Soul Jar|vessel of his power]] and the pivot on which the fate of Middle-earth would turn for five thousand
The story was originally intended as a ''shorter'' sequel to ''[[The Hobbit (novel)|The Hobbit]]'', but as its author famously remarked, "the tale grew in the telling." '''''The Lord of the Rings''''' by [[J. R. R.
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# ''The Fellowship of the Ring'', July 24, 1954
# ''The Two Towers'', November 11, 1954
# ''The Return of the King'', October 20, 1955
* ''[[The Lord of the Rings (animation)|The Lord of the Rings (Animated)]]'' - The [[Ralph Bakshi]] animated adaptation.
* ''[[The Return of the King (animation)|The Return of the King (Animated)]]'' - The [[Rankin-Bass]] animated adaptation of the third part.
* ''[[The Lord of the Rings (film)|The Lord of the Rings (Film series)]]'' - The [[Peter Jackson]] live action adaptation. Easily the most well-known version.
* ''[[The Lord of the Rings Online]]'' - a [[Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game]]
* ''[[War of the Ring]]'' - A 2003 [[Real Time Strategy]] game by Liquid Entertainment
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There was another aborted attempt by John Boorman to adapt the books in the 70's. It would've been live action and the notes from it might have suggested that adaptation might have looked like ''[[Zardoz]]''. The Harvard Lampoon published a parody titled ''[[Bored of the Rings]]'' in 1969, which manages to cover the entire journey in under 200 pages.
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* [[Army of the Dead]]
The majority of tropes used in ''LotR'' are well-explained, unlike in the majority of its [[The Theme Park Version|imitators]]. For instance, Mordor has large fertile areas offstage where food is grown, thus explaining how Sauron's armies survive in the volcanic hellscape around Barad-dur. The [[Artifact of Doom|Ring]] is also more than just a convenient [[MacGuffin]] -- its effects matter too much for that. This is largely due to the immensely elaborated [[Backstory]] and Tolkien's life-defining experiences in [http://www.greatwar.nl/frames/default-tolkiene.html The Great War.]▼
* [[Black Speech]]: The language of Sauron and Mordor.
* [[Breaking the Fellowship]]
* [[Common Tongue]]
* [[Dug Too Deep]]
* [[Echoing Acoustics]] used to be named "Live from Khazad Dum".
* [[The Fellowship Has Ended]]
* [[Gollum Made Me Do It]]
* [[Gondor Calls for Aid]]
* [[Hobbits]]
* [[Kneel Before Frodo]]: Aragorn bows to Frodo and Sam at Cormallen during the honoring of the Ring-bearers.
* [[Mithril]]: A fantasy version of [[Unobtainium]]
** [[Heavy Mithril]]: Music genre, a mix of the sound of [[Heavy Metal]] with fantasy-inspired lyrics
* [[Mordor]]: Although only true for parts of it (Volcanic soil is usually very fertile). The south of Mordor has huge fertile farmlands, which are needed to keep the Mooks fed.
* [[Mouth of Sauron]]
* [[Mythopoeia]]: Tolkien coined the term.
* [[Our Orcs Are Different]]: Formed the template that all modern fantasy copies from.
* [[Ring of Power]]: Several rings, but The One Ring is nicknamed this.
* [[Short Cuts Make Long Delays]]: Spoken first by Pippin.
* [[Speak Friend and Enter]]
* [[Walk Into Mordor]]: that dreaded thing, what which one [[Memetic Mutation|does not simply do]].
* [[You Shall Not Pass]]: Spoken first by Gandalf as "You cannot pass.", though the movie is the actual trope namer.
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There were, though, some tropes [[J. R. R. Tolkien|JRR Tolkien]] couldn't justify to his satisfaction, not helped by the fact that he updated his mythos constantly over a period of years, creating a minor [[Continuity Snarl]] at times but never quite reaching the [[Shrug of God]]. He spent years trying to decide how orcs could be [[Always Chaotic Evil]] without being born evil or soulless - since Eru would not give creatures born evil souls, on moral grounds, Morgoth was unable to create souls, and Tolkien believed anything without a soul would be a mere animal - but he never found any answer he liked. It was philosophical niggles like this that stopped him from publishing ''[[The Silmarillion]]'' in his lifetime. His son Christopher did it anyway, [[And the Fandom Rejoiced|to the delight of all]] Tolkien scholars, and most of his readers.▼
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▲The majority of tropes used in ''LotR'' are well-explained, unlike in the majority of its [[The Theme Park Version|imitators]]. For instance, Mordor has large fertile areas offstage where food is grown, thus explaining how Sauron's armies survive in the volcanic hellscape around Barad-dur. The [[Artifact of Doom|Ring]] is also more than just a convenient [[MacGuffin]]
▲There were, though, some tropes [[J. R. R. Tolkien|JRR Tolkien]] couldn't justify to his satisfaction, not helped by the fact that he updated his mythos constantly over a period of years, creating a minor [[Continuity Snarl]] at times but never quite reaching the [[Shrug of God]]. He spent years trying to decide how orcs could be [[
'''Please note that this is the page for tropes used in the book. See above for the links to pages for the movies.'''
▲* [[The Lord of the Rings/Tropes A-C|Tropes A to C]]
▲* [[The Lord of the Rings/Tropes M-O|Tropes M to O]]
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