third book in the lord of the rings trilogy

The Lord of the Rings won 174,000 votes in the final poll, 39,000 in advance of its nearest rival Pride and Prejudice and over 100,000 more than the fourth instalment of Harry Potter. The list was eventually whittled down to five after which about 750,000 people voted to select the winner. The search for Britain’s favourite novel began in April when nearly 1,400,000 people voted in the BBC’s The Big Read poll to find the nation’s top 100 fictional works. Novels falling just short of the top five included Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird, AA Milne’s Winnie The Pooh and George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four. Only 3,000 copies of the first edition are printed. “I think it’s an unbelievable honour to be here today and for my grandfather to be so loved in this way,” Simon Tolkien said following the award. The first book in The Lord of the Rings trilogy, The Fellowship of the Ring, is published in the U.K by George Allen & Unwin. The winning text was announced late on Saturday in a ceremony at the Royal Opera House in central London, broadcast live on BBC television and attended by Simon Tolkien, grandson of JRR Tolkien. There are giant salamanders, worms (long, quadrupedal serpents. In The Lord of the Rings Online: Shadows of Angmar, there are several types of creatures distantly related to dragons. The Lord of the Rings trilogy has enjoyed renewed popularity, following its successful switch to the cinema screen. Also in the real-time strategy game The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth II, based on Peter Jacksons film trilogy, there is a dragon named Drogoth. His Dark Materials trilogy, by Philip Pullman won third spot ahead of Douglas Adams’ The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy which just pushed Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire – the fourth instalment of the boy wizard adventures – into fifth place. Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, in second place, was the only non-fantasy book among Britons’ five favourite works.

Third book in the lord of the rings trilogy