Facts about J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings

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   Peter Jackson's film adaptations of J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings were filmed entirely in New Zealand and won a combined 17 Academy Awards.

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   J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings draws heavily on Norse and Anglo-Saxon mythology, with characters like Gandalf inspired by the wandering god Odin.

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   In J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings, the invented language Quenya is modeled partly on Finnish, which Tolkien studied and admired.

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   Frodo Baggins, the central protagonist of J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings, is a hobbit tasked with destroying the One Ring in the fires of Mount Doom.

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   The Lord of the Rings was originally published in three volumes by Allen & Unwin between 1954 and 1955.

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