The Fellowship Of The Ring:
Lord
Of The Rings #1
Written by: J.R.R.
Tolkien
Narrated by: Rob
Inglis
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Time: 19 Hours 53 Minutes
One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to
bring them all and in the darkness bind them
Continuing the story begun in The Hobbit, this is the
first part of Tolkien’s epic masterpiece, The Lord of the Rings.
Sauron, the Dark Lord, has gathered to him all the
Rings of Power – the means by which he intends to rule Middle-earth. 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.
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.
This top fantasy pick by the classic Sunday Times
bestselling author J. R. R. Tolkien is a journey through a world filled with
elves, wraiths and orcs.
The Lord of the Rings tells of the great quest
undertaken by Frodo and the Fellowship of the Ring: Gandalf the Wizard; the
hobbits Merry, Pippin, and Sam; Gimli the Dwarf; Legolas the Elf; Boromir of
Gondor; and a tall, mysterious stranger called Strider.
About the Author
J.R.R.
Tolkien (1892-1973), beloved throughout the world as the creator of The Hobbit,
The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion, was a professor of Anglo-Saxon at
Oxford, a fellow of Pembroke College, and a fellow of Merton College until his
retirement in 1959. His chief interest was the linguistic aspects of the early
English written tradition, but while he studied classic works of the past, he
was creating a set of his own.