Read on for an excerpt of J.R.R. Tolkien: Author of the Century, by Tom Shippey.
Evil and the Ring

Still from The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
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Author and Tolkien scholar Tom Shippey in 2015.
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Sammath Naur at Mount Doom, where the Ring was finally destroyed, in The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
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