The Lord of the Rings

The Lord of the Rings is a media franchise based on J. R. R. Tolkien's high fantasy novel of the same name, published in three volumes between 1954 and 1955 as a sequel to his earlier book The Hobbit, and set in his invented world of Middle-earth. Peter Jackson directed a film trilogy released between 2001 and 2003 that was shot simultaneously in New Zealand, won a combined seventeen Academy Awards including Best Picture for its final installment, The Return of the King, and grossed nearly three billion dollars worldwide, and he later directed a further trilogy adapting The Hobbit between 2012 and 2014. The franchise has expanded into Amazon television series The Rings of Power, video games, tabletop games and an extensive line of collectibles, and Tolkien's invented languages, mythology and maps, first developed across decades of his own scholarly and creative writing, continue to shape the wider fantasy genre in literature, film and games.