![]() ![]() Tolkien's world (earning a lawsuit from Tolkien Enterprises, but that's another story). This same demographic was obviously early adapters of Dungeons & Dragons, which came out in 1974 and borrowed heavily from J.R.R. Direct and indirect allusions to Tolkien in the music of Led Zeppelin and Rush confirmed the cool factor for Tolkien - for shaggy college kids who liked heavy music, you couldn't get a better seal of approval than Robert Plant/Jimmy Page lyrics (see "Ramble On" and "Battle of Evermore"). The three Lord of the Rings books weren't published in paperback editions in the States until 1965 and steadily climbed the New York Times bestseller list. In the late '60s and '70s, Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings books were an underground phenomenon on American college campuses. ![]()
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