The Lord of the Rings

This book by J.R.R. Tolkien has come up 3 times across 2 different shows: Joe Rogan, Lex Fridman. 3 of those mentions were genuine on-air recommendations, not just passing references. The people who brought it up: Joe Rogan, guest. The earliest mention we indexed is from 2019-10-27 and the most recent from 2024-06-27. Every occurrence below links to the episode page and to the exact second it was said on YouTube.

Originally published from 1954 through 1956, J.R.R. Tolkien's richly complex series ushered in a new age of epic adventure storytelling. A philologist and illustrator who took inspiration from his work, Tolkien invented the modern heroic quest novel from the ground up, creating not just a world, but a domain, not just a lexicon, but a language, that would spawn countless imitators and lead to the inception of the epic fantasy genre. Today, THE LORD OF THE RINGS is considered "the most influential fantasy novel ever written." (THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF FANTASY) During his travels across Middle-earth, the hobbit Bilbo Baggins had found the Ring.