The Fellowship of the Ring

by TOLKIEN J. R. R.

• ISBN13: 9780618346257
• ISBN10: 0618346252
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-09-01
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin

Summary

One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkeness bind them In ancient times the Rings of Power were crafted by the Elven-smiths, and Sauron, The Dark Lord, forged the One Ring, filling it with his own power so that he could rule all others. But the One Ring was taken from him, and though he sought it throughout Middle-earth, it remained lost to him. After many ages it fell into the hands of Bilbo Baggins, as told in The Hobbit. In a sleepy village in the Shire, young Frodo Baggins finds himself faced with an immense task, as his elderly cousin Bilbo entrusts the Ring to his care. Frodo must leave his home and make a perilous journey across Middle-earth to the Cracks of Doom, there to destroy the Ring and foil the Dark Lord in his evil purpose.

Author Biography

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.

Table of Contents

Note on the Text
Foreword to the Second Edition
Prologue: Concerning Hobbits, and other matters
A Long-expected Party	p. 21
The Shadow of the Past	p. 41
Three is Company	p. 64
A Short Cut to Mushrooms	p. 84
A Conspiracy Unmasked	p. 96
The Old Forest	p. 107
In the House of Tom Bombadil	p. 121
Fog on the Barrow-downs	p. 132
At the Sign of The Prancing Pony	p. 146
Strider	p. 160
A Knife in the Dark	p. 172
Flight to the Ford	p. 192
Many Meetings	p. 213
The Council of Elrond	p. 233
The Ring Goes South	p. 265
A Journey in the Dark	p. 287
The Bridge of Khazad-dum	p. 313
Lothlorien	p. 324
The Mirror of Galadriel	p. 344
Farewell to Lorien	p. 358
The Great River	p. 371
The Breaking of the Fellowship	p. 386
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