The Lord of the Rings

One Ring to rule them allOne Ring to find themOne Ring to bring them alland in the darkness bind themIn ancient times the Rings of Power were crafted by the Elv... » 

One Ring to rule them allOne Ring to find themOne Ring to bring them alland in the darkness bind themIn ancient times the Rings of Power were crafted by the Elvensmiths andSauron the Dark Lord forged the One Ring filling it with his own power sothat he could rule all others. But the One Ring was taken from him and thoughhe sought it throughout Middleearth it remained lost to him. After many agesit fell by chance into the hands of the hobbit Bilbo Baggins.From Saurons fastness in the Dark Tower of Mordor his power spread far andwide. Sauron gathered all the Great Rings to him but always he searched forthe One Ring that would complete his dominion.When Bilbo reached his eleventyfirst birthday he disappeared bequeathing tohis young cousin Frodo the Ruling Ring and a perilous quest to journey acrossMiddleearth deep into the shadow of the Dark Lord and destroy the Ring bycasting it into the Cracks of Doom.The Lord of the Rings tells of the great quest undertaken by Frodo and theFellowship of the Ring Gandalf the Wizard the hobbits Merry Pippin and SamGimli the Dwarf Legolas the Elf Boromir of Gondor and a tall mysteriousstranger called Strider.This new edition includes the fiftiethanniversary fully corrected text settingand for the first time an extensive new index.J.R.R. Tolkien 18921973 beloved throughout the world as the creator of TheHobbit The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion was a professor of AngloSaxon at Oxford a fellow of Pembroke College and a fellow of Merton Collegeuntil his retirement in 1959. His chief interest was the linguistic aspects ofthe early English writtentradition but while he studied classic works of thepast he was creating a set of his own.Praise for The Lord of the RingsAn extraordinary work pure excitement. New York Times Book ReviewOne of the great fairytale quests in modern literature. Time «