Indeed, he was one of the most accomplished philologists that have ever been known. Meanwhile, his family, now numbering four children, encouraged Tolkien to use his mythological imagination to deal with more homely topics. For them he wrote and illustrated The Father Christmas Letters, and to them he told the story of The Hobbit published some years later in 1937 by Stanley Unwin, who then asked for a 'sequel'. At first, Tolkien applied himself only unwillingly to this task, but soon he was inspired, and what meant to be another book for children grew into The Lord of the Rings, truly a sequel to the Silmarillion than to the Hobbit. This huge story took twelve years to complete, and it was not published until Tolkien was approaching retirement. When it did reach print, its extraordinary popularity took him by surprise.
After retirement, Tolkien and his wife lived first in the Headington area of Oxford, then moved to Bournemouth, but after his wife's death in 1971, Tolkien returned to Oxford and died after a very brief illness on 2nd September 1973, leaving his great mythological van legendary cycle The Silmarillion to be edited for publication by his son, Christopher.
The Lord of the Rings; The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien is the first of the three books in The Lord of the Rings. This book takes place after the prelude to the saga The Hobbit. It is a set of books that take place in the fictional world of Middle Earth. It has many fictional races like hobbits, elves, and demons, which makes it different from many other books. Bilbo Baggins now possesses the Ring of Power and it needs to be destroyed. If the evil lord Sauron retrieves the ring, all of Middle Earth will be destroyed. Frodo will have to make a long journey to be able to get rid of the ring: .
"I will take the Ring," he said, "though I do not .
know the way" (Tolkien 32).
The story starts, as Bilbo Baggins' own adopted son, Frodo Baggins, will now have to set out to dispose of the ring where it was created by Sauron:.