![]() ![]() The release of the Lord of the Rings film trilogy also consolidated the idea that the story is split into 3 parts, although this notion had already been firmly established by half a century of printing LOTR in three chunky installments. This is how the story was originally published in the mid-1950s and also how Peter Jackson adapted Tolkien's magnum opus, with each book translated into an epic, longer-than-feature-length movie that served to bring Middle-earth to both a new generation and a more mainstream audience. The Lord of the Rings is widely known as a trilogy, both in the literary and cinematic worlds, so why is it often referred to as a series of 6 books? On bookshelves and film libraries across the world, Frodo's trek from the Shire to Mount Doom is split into three parts: The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers and The Return of the King.
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