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The Fellowship of the Ring

  • 492 pages · about 8 hours
  • First published 1954
  • 317 editions

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1 About this book

One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness 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.

  • Hope
  • Fantasy
  • Adventure
  • Fantasy, epic
  • Elves
  • Dwarves
  • Fear
  • Young adult fiction

2 What to expect

The first part of The Lord of the Rings: Frodo leaves the Shire with the Ring and a company forms to destroy it. Slow to start, with songs and long journeys, and a richly detailed world.

Good for readers who want: epic fantasy, a quest, and a long read.

3 About J.R.R. Tolkien

1892–1973

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (3 January 1892 – 2 September 1973) was an English writer and academic philologist. He was the author of the high fantasy works The Hobbit (1937) and The Lord of the Rings (1954–1955). From 1925 to 1945 Tolkien was the Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon and a Fellow of Pembroke College, both at the University of Oxford.

Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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