Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's novel 'Frankenstein or The new Prometheus' has influenced popular culture ever since and the story of its origin itself also holds for another gothic novel.
The Lord of the Rings is an epic high fantasy novel written by English philologist and University of Oxford professor J. R. R. Tolkien. The story began as a sequel to Tolkien's earlier, less complex children's fantasy novel The Hobbit (1937), but eventually developed into a much larger work.