{"id":10377,"date":"2019-07-29T17:47:06","date_gmt":"2019-07-29T13:47:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/?p=10377"},"modified":"2019-07-29T17:49:12","modified_gmt":"2019-07-29T13:49:12","slug":"the-fellowship-of-the-ring-published-65-years-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/the-fellowship-of-the-ring-published-65-years-ago\/","title":{"rendered":"The Fellowship of the Ring published 65 years ago"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Tolkien-Post.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10378\" srcset=\"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Tolkien-Post.png 600w, https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Tolkien-Post-300x158.png 300w, https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Tolkien-Post-190x100.png 190w, https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Tolkien-Post-280x147.png 280w, https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Tolkien-Post-445x234.png 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption> <em>The Fellowship of the Ring<\/em>, being the first part of\u00a0<em>The Lord of the Rings<\/em>, was published 65 years ago today, on the 29<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0July 1954 <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p> As the first part of J.R.R. Tolkien\u2019s&nbsp;<em>The Lord of the Rings<\/em>, the book forms the sequel to Tolkien\u2019s 1937 book&nbsp;<em>The Hobbit<\/em>&nbsp;and starts off with Bilbo Baggins passing on his magical ring to his \u201cnephew\u201d Frodo. The exact nature of the Ring is revealed and Frodo embarks on a quest to take the Ring to Mordor to destroy it. The book sees Frodo, Sam, Merry and Pippin travel to Bree where they are joined by Aragorn who takes them on to Rivendell. At Rivendell, the Council of Elrond discusses the nature and history of the Ring, and thereafter a Fellowship is formed of Frodo, Sam, Merry, Pippin, Aragorn, Gandalf, Legolas, Gimli and Boromir. They travel south via Moria and Lothl\u00f3rien and the book ends at Amon Hen. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-style-default is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p> <\/p><cite> <em> <\/em> <em>The English-speaking world is divided into those who have read&nbsp;The Lord of the Rings&nbsp;and&nbsp;The Hobbit&nbsp;and those who are going to read them.\u201d<\/em> <em>\u2013&nbsp;The Sunday Times <\/em> <\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Due to the length of the book, the publishers \u2013 George Allen &amp; Unwin \u2013 decided to split the publication of the book into three volumes, with&nbsp;<em>The Fellowship of the Ring<\/em>&nbsp;constituting the first volume. Tolkien went on to revise&nbsp;<em>The Lord of the Rings<\/em>&nbsp;with a second edition in the 1960s, and a definitive edition was published as the 50th Anniversary Edition in 2004. It was first published as an ebook in 2009.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The Lord of the Rings<\/em>&nbsp;has been translated into around 50 languages and since gone on to sell around 150 million copies. It is ranked as one of the best-selling books of all time, and Amazon customers rated the work as the \u201cBook of the Millennium\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Fellowship of the Ring, being the first part of\u00a0The &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10379,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1926],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-adults","cat_1926"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10377"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10384,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10377\/revisions\/10384"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}