![]() ![]() Tolkiens great work of imaginative fiction has been labelled both a heroic romance and a classic fantasy fiction. 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.J.R.R. 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. All he lacks in his plans for dominion is the One Ring " the ring that rules them all which has fallen into the hands of the hobbit, Bilbo Baggins. Sauron, the Dark Lord, has gathered to him all the Rings of Power " the means by which he intends to rule Middle-earth. ![]() But his contentment is disturbed when the wizard, Gandalf, and a company of thirteen dwarves arrive on his doorstep to whisk him away on a journey ' there and back again.' They have a plot to raid the treasure hoard of smaug the Magnificent, a large and very dangerous dragon.Ĭontinuing the story begun in The Hobbit, this is the first part of Tolkiens epic masterpiece, The Lord of the Rings, featuring the definitive text and a detailed map of Middle-earth. This is the story of how a Baggins had an adventure, and found himself doing and saying things altogether unexpected.Bilbo Baggins is a hobbit who enjoys a comfortable, unambitious life, rarely travelling further than the pantry of his hobbit hole in bag End. ![]()
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