The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
By, J.R.R. Tolkien

If you are familiar with The Hobbit, which is the prelude to The Lord of the Rings, you will thoroughly enjoy J.R.R. Tolkien’s next book. Bilbo Baggins is approaching his One hundredth and eleventh birthday. He is tired of The Shire and wants to go out on an adventure again. In The Hobbit, Bilbo, a good natured, short and hairy hobbit, discovers a ring that conveys the power of indivisibility, but also corrupts the user. Bilbo doesn’t know it, but the ring is starting to take over his mind. He does not want to part with it but he knows he must leave the Ring of Power, the one ring to rule them all, with his nephew Frodo. Bilbo does not know that his ring, his magical ring, is the ring that the dark lord Sauron created to rule the Middle-Earth with. Gandalf, a widely known and popular wizard, suspects what the ring truly is and urges Bilbo to give it up. Gandalf was afraid that the ring’s black power would consume Bilbo. Gandalf also knows that the ring must be destroyed before Sauron finds it and once again attempts to conquer the Middle-Earth. The rings can only be destroyed in the fires of Mount Doom, from where it was made.

Frodo takes off on a huge adventure, to travel deep into the lands of Mordor, the seat of Sauron’s power, to destroy the ring. At the council of Elrond Frodo is appointed as the ring bearer. The Companions of the Ring were chosen to aid Frodo on his quest to the Mountain of Doom. In this fellowship were Aragorn, and Boromir son of the Lord of Gondor, representing the men; Legolas son of the Elven-King of Mirkwood, for the Elves, Gimli son of Gloin of the Lonely Mountain, for the Dwarves; Frodo with his servant Samwise, and his two kinsmen Meriadoc (Merry) and Peregrin (Pippin), for the Hobbits; and Gandalf the Grey.