Sauron and Gandalf the Grey battle for possession of the One Ring and its evil powers, in the epic conclusion of The Lord of the Rings trilogy. (A New Line Cinema film, the third of three feature films based on The Lord of the Rings trilogy, starring Viggo Mortenson, Hugo Weaving, Liv Tyler, Orlando Bloom, John Rhys-Davies, Sean Bean, Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen, & Ian Holm)
J.R.R. Tolkien (1892–1973), beloved throughout the world as the creator of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, was a professor of Anglo-Saxon at Oxford, a fellow of Pembroke College, and a fellow of Merton College until his retirement in 1959. His chief interest was the linguistic aspects of the early English written tradition, but even as he studied these classics he was creating a set of his own.