Incredible as a work like The Hobbit created in principle for a child audience, is a book loved by all audiences. Perhaps because to write, The Lord of the Rings waited 20 years for the children who had read The Hobbit to be able to read The Lord of the Rings. Undeniably, much of the current fame of J R R and so many other writers within the reading youth is due to the cinema, to the extraordinary films that have been made from these books. I like that in the first edition, he himself drew the illustrations of the book and created the maps that gave life to the story. As always, excellent post, @honeydue.