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With those words, [[Big Bad|Sauron]] forged the [[Artifact of Doom|One Ring]], the [[Soul Jar|vessel of his power]] and the pivot on which the fate of Middle-earth would turn for five thousand years—until the [[Hobbits|most unlikely of heroes]] did the one thing Sauron [[Evil Cannot Comprehend Good|could never have imagined]], and brought his [[Evil Tower of Ominousness|dark tower]] [[Collapsing Lair|tumbling down]].
 
The story was originally intended as a ''shorter'' sequel to ''[[The Hobbit (novel)|The Hobbit]]'', but as its author famously remarked, "the tale grew in the telling." '''''The Lord of the Rings''''' by [[J. R. R. Tolkien|JRR Tolkien]] is too well-known, and too complex, to be [[The Lord of the Rings/Recap|summarised in full]]. Succinctly, it is by far the most recent addition to the [[Canon]] of Western epic literature and is, in the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ta0bxLJ4sHE words of Jude Fisher], the "[[Ur Example|Ur fantasy trilogy]]", which set the stage for the entire [[High Fantasy|modern genre]] that followed in its wake.
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