What famous novel is the prequel to the Lord of the Rings?
Correct answer: The Hobbit
mr greenfingers
one if the best books i ever read
Uninitialized
I'm 69 years old and the first time I read Tolkien's Hobbit & The Lord of the Rings I was 16. even with several movies to watch I still reread them every 5 or six years. Tolkien, Heinlein, and Asimov were my favorite authors. Stranger in a Strange Land is another reread for me.
Radakyl
Peter Jackson did a good job on the movies!
SlickWiggler
72jacobite, I read all but the Silmarillion when I was ten. They aren't that hard to read, especially the Hobbit.
ZED
OpheliaDoomed, the Silmarillion wasn’t actually published until 1977 - posthumously by his son. Although it is, technically, Tolkien’s first (and last book) and precedes the Hobbit in the timeline...it is not considered a ‘prequel’ to the Hobbit. It sets the foundation of the legends referred to in LOTR and the Hobbit - although it is a totally frightful bore to read.
Birdiemom
Player #3662806, Oh, you lucky kids! I LOVED when our teachers read to us, and because of that I read to our kids, and they learned to love reading too.
Player #5919035
not really a prequel if the book came out before lord of the ring. isn't prequel supposed to mean set before (which is the case) bu publishes After? (not the case)
Mari
my 7th grade teacher read the Hobbit to our class for a succesion of mornings. I went and bought paperback editions of the Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings. 95¢ each in 1967.
mermaidmessiah
my fiance & I are Tolkien geeks, proud of it lol.. they say the estate will be doing the Real prequel- the Silmarillion.. going to be hard to interpret into film but so excited no matter what it turns out to be
JimmyLovesQL
Peter Jackson did them justice.
Mel
I Wtched a program about the artist who drew the town the Hobbits lived in the town with the houses are still there in Nz.
Globular Martian
The Silmarillion is hard going.
Mars V
Big fan of Evangeline Lily, though.
Mars V
I think it was so lame that they stretched that little book into three long movies. It’s all about making money 💰.
Libro
I think it must be silmarillion because all settings start with it.
K
Is The Silmarillion a prequel to Lord of the Rings?
However, he later did publish The Silmarillion after his success with The Lord of the Rings trilogy. Though published after both The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings trilogy, this is a prequel to both stories.
K
This is incorrect! The actual prequel is the Silmarillion. It is known as the “dictionary” to all of the books written by Tolkien.
Dotty
I used to reed all the time LOTR only three times. I can only listen now as when I read I fall asleep😢
Dotty
why did I click on that I know better. someone slap with a fish
lily
Uninitialized, my name is lily Vincent
Levy
The war of the ring 😂
Melode
the fellowship of the ring is myfavorite of tolkeins work
I especially like Gandalf. he issomething else. I watch it whenever they show it which isn't often unfortunaely.
onecanuck
I feel compelled to note that The Hobbit isn't technically a prequel. A prequel typically refers to a work published later, which references am earlier time. The Hobbit was written first. :)
shams
Tolkien was not English he was South African
yazaria
I just started watching the Lord of the rings.
Guillermo Jr.
Silmarillion is ALMOST as hard of a tongue twister as
Red Leather, Yellow Leather
Player #38500784
the silmarillion is an amazing book, really brings the lore of middle earth to life ... can't see a film ever doing that justice
Chilled Tea
J.R.R. Tolkien is one of the best writers!
Neil
The Hobbit is not a "prequel" it was written first so it is the preceding book.
Player Gigi #28446253
ZED, I tried to read Silmarillion years ago after reading The Hobbit and LOTR and could NOT get into it. I was very disappointed. Thank you for your comment about being boring! I feel better after all these years. I thought I was missing something 😕
Player Gigi #28446253
I reread The Hobbit and the complete Lord of the Rings trilogy this fall. I am 80 and loved every bit of it!
xnyx222x
Only aware of this because my precious boyfriend is a huge Nerd and has relayed said topic to me on a few occasions ! Xoxo
Rashid
Lord of The Rings & The Hobbit are still my favorite movies.
Beyond my imagination.❤❤
Tassos
You shall not pass me!!!
TJ SISTER
Both are great movie's too.
CinderBullets
Swifty, agreed
CinderBullets
Redeemed 2001, you got that right, provided they get someone to just follow the book.
CinderBullets
Player #10406868, try again.
CinderBullets
JimmyLovesQL, Not really. did you read the books? so much gore and so much divergence to alternate plots.