The Fellowship of the Ring

by Tolkien, J. R. R.

• ISBN13: 9780618260263
• ISBN10: 0618260269
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-09-01
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin

Summary

The first volume in J.R.R. Tolkien's epic adventure The Lord of the Rings "Here are beauties which pierce like swords or burn like cold iron." -- C. S. Lewis "Exciting . . . Tolkien's invention is unflagging." -- W. H. Auden 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.

Table of Contents

NOTE ON THE TEXT
FOREWORD TO THE SECOND EDITION
PROLOGUE Concerning Hobbits, and other matters
BOOK ONE
I A Long-expected Party	21	(20)
II The Shadow of the Past	41	(23)
III Three is Company	64	(20)
IV A Short Cut to Mushrooms	84	(12)
V A Conspiracy Unmasked	96	(5)
VI The Old Forest	101	(20)
VII In the House of Tom Bombadil	121	(11)
VIII Fog on the Barrow-downs	132	(14)
IX At the Sign of The Prancing Pony	146	(14)
X Strider	160	(12)
XI A Knife in the Dark	172	(20)
XII Flight to the Ford	192	(21)
BOOK TWO
I Many Meetings	213	(20)
II The Council of Elrond	233	(32)
III The Ring Goes South	265	(22)
IV A Journey in the Dark	287	(26)
V The Bridge of Khazad-dûm	313	(11)
VI Lothlórien	324	(20)
VII The Mirror of Galadriel	344	(14)
VIII Farewell to Lórien	358	(13)
IX The Great River	371	(15)
X The Breaking of the Fellowship	386