The Lord of the Rings 1

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The Fellowship of the Ring is the first volume in J.R.R. Tolkien’s epic adventure tale, The Lord of the Rings.

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.

“A unique, wholly realized other world, evoked from deep in the well of Time, massively detailed, absorbingly entertaining, profound in meaning.”—The New York Times

Contents

BOOK ONE

Chapter One: A Long-expected Party 

Chapter Two: The Shadow of the Past

Chapter Three: Three is Company 

Chapter Four: A Short Cut to Mushrooms

Chapter Five: A Conspiracy Unmasked

Chapter Six: The Old Forest 

Chapter Seven: In the House of tom Bombadil

Chapter Eight: Fog on the Barrow-downs

Chapter Nine: At the Sign of the Prancing Pony

Chapter Ten: Strider 

Chapter Eleven: A Knife In the Dark 

Chapter Twelve: Flight to the Ford 

BOOK TWO

Chapter One: Many Meetings 

Chapter Two: The Council of Elrond

Chapter Three: The Ring Goes South

Chapter Four: A Journey in the Dark

Chapter Five: The Bridge of Khazad-Dum

Chapter Six: Lothlorien 

Chapter Seven: The Mirror of Galadriel

Chapter Eight: Farewell to Lorien 

Chapter Nine: The Great River 

Chapter Ten: The Breaking of the Fellowship 

Review

“Here are beauties which pierce like swords or burn like cold iron.” — C.S. Lewis

“Destined to outlast our time.” The New York Herald-Tribune

“Exciting… Mr. Tolkien’s invention is unflagging” — W.H. Auden —

About the Author

J.R.R. Tolkien (1892–1973) is the creator of Middle-earth and author of such classic and extraordinary works of fiction as The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion. His books have been translated into more than fifty languages and have sold many millions of copies worldwide.