Aiding Frodo are the Wizard Gandalf, the Men Aragorn and Boromir, the Elf Legolas, and the Dwarf Gimli, who unite in order to rally the Free Peoples of Middle-earth against Sauron's armies and give Frodo a chance to destroy the One Ring in the fire of Mount Doom.Īlthough often called a trilogy, the work was intended by Tolkien to be one volume in a two-volume set along with The Silmarillion. From homely beginnings in the Shire, a hobbit land reminiscent of the English countryside, the story ranges across Middle-earth, following the quest to destroy the One Ring, seen mainly through the eyes of the hobbits Frodo, Sam, Merry, and Pippin. The title refers to the story's main antagonist, the Dark Lord Sauron, who, in an earlier age, created the One Ring to rule the other Rings of Power given to Men, Dwarves, and Elves, in his campaign to conquer all of Middle-earth. Written in stages between 19, The Lord of the Rings is one of the best-selling books ever written, with over 150 million copies sold. Set in Middle-earth, the story began as a sequel to Tolkien's 1937 children's book The Hobbit, but eventually developed into a much larger work. The Lord of the Rings is an epic high-fantasy novel by the English author and scholar J. 20 October 1955 ( The Return of the King).29 July 1954 ( The Fellowship of the Ring).Bilbo then escaped with the One Ring's property of invisibility, and soon rejoined Thorin and Company at the foot of the mountains. Gollum, of course, did not know, and frustratedly pardoned himself to his island home. While the content of this article is based on official information, the actual name of the subject is conjectural, and is yet to or cannot be officially named.īilbo engages Gollum in a riddle-game, as portrayed in The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journeyīilbo Baggins and Gollum, while struggling for dominance against one another, entered into an riddle-game in Gollum's cave, as recounted in the fifth chapter of The Hobbit.īilbo unfairly won by asking Gollum what he had in his pocket. The title of this article is conjectural.

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