![]() ![]() The Return of the King was released on January 5th 1956 with a run of 5,000 copies.On April 21st 1955, they released 1,000 copies of The Two Towers. ![]() Houghton Mifflin published 1,500 copies of the Fellowship of the Ring in October 1954.Part 3, the Return of the King, was published 20th of October 1955 with 7,000 copies.The Two Towers was published 11 November 1954 with 3,250 copies.The publishers, Allen & Unwin, printed 3,000 copies. ![]() The first book, The Fellowship of the Rings, was published on 29 July 1954.The Lord of the Rings series is one of the best-selling book series of all time having sold approximately 150 million books around the world.Īlthough the Hobbit is technically separate, it is often put together with the Lord of the Rings as they were initially planned as a sequel to The Hobbit. Tolkien didn’t receive an advance on LOTR but instead agreed to larger royalties on book sales after the book was in profit.Delays in producing the maps for the appendices led to publication being delayed.It was written between 19 with the majority written during World War II.Because of paper shortages, it was split into 3 sections, each made up of two “books”.Tolkien planned to publish the three books as a single novel.“Tolkienian” and “Tolkienesque” are in the Oxford English Dictionary.It was also named the nation’s best-loved novel by the BBC in their “The Big Read” poll of the British public.The Lord of the Rings was voted book of the 20th century by Waterstones customers in the UK. ![]()
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