Is The Hobbit considered a prequel?

Is The Hobbit considered a prequel?

Peter Jackson's The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey is a prequel to his Lord of the Rings trilogy, which most people rushing to The Hobbit will have already seen. In the new film there are many nods or foreshadowing to adventures or characters seen in LOTR, and connections to be made.

What comes first the Hobbit or Lord of the Rings books?

The Lord of the Rings

The first single-volume edition (1968)
Author	J. R. R. Tolkien
OCLC	1487587
Preceded by	The Hobbit
Followed by	The Adventures of Tom Bombadil

Will there be a LOTR prequel?

The show revealed its first somewhat mysterious photo in August 2021, also revealing that the show will be released on Sept. 2, 2022. ... The series is set in Tolkien's Second Age, thousands of years before The Hobbit and LOTR.

Is the Hobbit a sequel to The Lord of the Rings?

• Not really, no, it’s more accurate to say the Lord of the Rings is a sequel to The Hobbit. The Hobbit was published in 1937 (although he basically finished writing i...

Is there going to be a Lord of the Rings prequel?

• Early rumors suggested the prequel series would focus on a young Aragorn. While Aragorn wasn't born until several thousand years after the end of the Second Age, these rumors could still pan out.

Is the Hobbit going to be a trilogy?

• The films were a cinematic triumph but also took major artistic liberties which also tied them more directly to the ‘Lord of the Ring’ series. If Jackson could change ‘The Hobbit’ from a two part film to a trilogy, we could also hope for another part to be added to the adaption.

When did Tolkien publish The Lord of the Rings?

• Tolkien never actually published any books after completing the Lord of the Rings trilogy in 1955.