The Rough Guide to the Lord of the Rings

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The Rough Guide to the Lord of the Rings

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Barad-dûr

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Battle of Five Armies

the destruction of the One Ring

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Jack Simpson, Gavin, Howard, Dominic, IWG

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"This is not a work which many adults will read through more than once," the Times Literary Supplement noted snootily in 1954 in its review of The Fellowship of the RIng, the first instalment of JRR Tolkien's trilogy.

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