id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-6789 The Lord of the Rings - Wikipedia .html text/html 13839 1798 82 Tolkien worked on the text using his maps of Middle-earth as a guide, to ensure the elements of the story fitted together in time and space.[T 4] He prepared a variety of types of illustration – maps, calligraphy, drawings, cover designs, even a facsimile painting of the Book of Mazarbul – but only the maps, the inscription on the Ring, and a drawing of the Doors of Durin were included in the first edition.[18][T 5] Both the characters and the work itself were, according to Jenkyns, "anemic, and lacking in fibre".[83] The science fiction author David Brin interprets the work as holding unquestioning devotion to a traditional hierarchical social structure.[84] In his essay "Epic Pooh", fantasy author Michael Moorcock critiques the world-view displayed by the book as deeply conservative, in both the "paternalism" of the narrative voice and the power structures in the narrative.[85] Tom Shippey, like Tolkien an English philologist, notes the wide gulf between Tolkien's supporters, both popular and academic, and his literary detractors, and attempts to explain in detail both why the literary establishment disliked The Lord of the Rings, and the work's subtlety, themes, and merits, including the impression of depth that it conveys.[86] ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-6789.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-6789.txt