The first volume of The Lord of the Rings was published in 1954.
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After some time, The Hobbit was published, and Tolkien was asked to write a sequel to the novel. He first thought to send Bilbo on another adventure because he had run out of money then he started conceiving The Lord of the Rings as we know it. He took fifteen/twenty years to create and write LotR, and The Fellowship of the Ring was published in 1954.
The first ever Lord of the Rings movie was The Lord of the Rings (1978), but of the trilogy starting in 2001, the first movie was called The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring.
The volumes of Lord of the Rings were first published in July 1954 with the first book. The second book was published on November 11th, 1954. Then the 3rd one was published on October 20th, 1955.
Note: The Lord of the Rings is a single book. It is not a trilogy and not a series. It was merely published in three parts/volumes, which are named: The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, The Return of the King.
The Lord of the Rings trilogy was first released in 2001 titled The Lord of the Rings the Fellowship of the Ring then followed by The Lord of the Rings The Two Towers released in 2002 and the last sequel was the The Lord of the Rings The Return of the King released in 2003.