R J Vincent R J Vincent Raymond John Vincent (February 28, 1943 – November 2,1990), known as R J Vincent or John Vincent, was a scholar of the English school of international relations theory. He was a graduate of the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, and the Australian National University. As well as holding visiting positions at Princeton University and the Australian National University, he was professor of international relations ar Keele University, Fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford, and Montague Burton Professor of International Relations at the London School of Economics from 1989 until his death. He is most famous for his books
The History of The Lord of the Rings "The Lord of the Rings". J. R. R. Tolkien conceived the latter as a single volume comprising six "books" plus extensive appendices, but the original publisher split the work into three, publishing two books per volume with the appendices included in the third. The titles proposed by Tolkien for the six books were: Book I, "The First Journey" or "The Ring Sets Out"; Book II, "The Journey of the Nine Companions" or "The Ring Goes South"; Book III, "The Treason of Isengard"; Book IV, "The Journey of the Ring-Bearers" or "The Ring Goes East"; Book V, "The War of the