This set contains 3 books - The Lord of the Rings Book 1 The Fellowship of the Ring, The Lord of the Rings Book 2 The Two Towers, The Lord of the Rings Book 3 The Return of the King. The Lord of the Rings is an epic high-fantasy novel by English author and scholar J. R. R. Tolkien. Set in Middle-earth, intended to be Earth at some time in the distant past, the story began as a sequel to Tolkien's 1937 children's book The Hobbit, but eventually developed into a much larger work.