The Lord of the Rings was then split into three Parts named The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, and The Return of the King, each containing two Books. Tolkien had internally structured the book into six sections named Book I-VI, and Appendices. Upon publication the publisher insisted on splitting the book into separate volumes because of its large size, much to Tolkien's dismay. Lewis, both making critical or favorable reviews about the formation and the content of the story. During that time, Tolkien had his work reviewed by the Inklings and his friend C.S. Writing, re-writing and editing The Lord of the Rings was not easy work for Tolkien, and it was a process that took him over a decade to complete. It was when Tolkien was pestered by his fans and publishers that he decided to make The Hobbit to be part of his Middle-earth legendarium, and set writing The Lord of the Rings to be it's sequel. The Hobbit originally wasn't conceived by J.R.R.Tolkien to part of the Middle-earth legendarium as he intended the book to a children's story, and never as the beginning of an epic tale. The Lord of the Rings at first was to be a sequel to The Silmarillion.The reason for this was that Tolkien, at the time, was working on his Middle-earth legendarium and what was going to be the First Age of his fictional world.
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