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The Lord of the Rings is an epic high fantasy novel written by English philologist and University of Oxford professor J. R. R. Tolkien . The story began as a sequel to Tolkien's 1937 children's fantasy novel The Hobbit , but eventually developed into a much larger work. It was written in stages between 1937 and 1949, much of it during World War II . [ 1 ] It is the second best-selling novel ever written , with over 150 million copies sold. [ 2 ]
