num_pages: 544
description: One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them. In ancient times the Rings of Power were crafted by the Elven-smiths, and Sauron, the Dark Lord, forged the One Ring, filling it with his own power so that he could rule all others. But the One Ring was taken from him, and though he sought it throughout Middle-earth, it remained lost to him. After many ages it fell by chance into the hands of the hobbit Bilbo Baggins. From Sauron's fastness in the Dark Tower of Mordor, his power spread far and wide. Sauron gathered all the Great Rings to him, but always he searched for the One Ring that would complete his dominion. When Bilbo reached his eleventy-first birthday he disappeared, bequeathing to his young cousin Frodo the Ruling Ring and a perilous to journey across Middle-earth, deep into the shadow of the Dark Lord, and destroy the Ring by casting it into the Cracks of Doom. The Lord of the Rings tells of the great quest undertaken by Frodo and the Fellowship of the 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. 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.
language: English
title: THE LORD OF THE RINGS Being: the Fellowship of the Ring, the Two Towers, and the Return of the King
titlecomplete: THE LORD OF THE RINGS Being: the Fellowship of the Ring, the Two Towers, and the Return of the King
characters: Frodo Baggins, Bilbo Baggins, Éowyn, Elrond Half-elven, Saruman, Legolas, Gimli, Gollum, Peregrin Took, Boromir, Faramir, Meriadoc Brandybuck, Arwen Undómiel, Éomer, Gandalf, Sam Gamgee, Aragorn, Galadriel, Treebeard
genres: High Fantasy, Novels, Young Adult, Science Fiction Fantasy, Literature, Fantasy, Classics, Adventure, Fiction, Epic Fantasy
ratings_count: 657234
places: Middle-earth
series: The Lord of the Rings
awards: awardedAt: -126201600000
name: Hugo Award
category: Best All-Time Series, awardedAt: 1230796800000
name: Prometheus Hall of Fame Award, awardedAt: -410198400000
name: International Fantasy Award
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: Books I Loved Best Yearly (BILBY) Awards
category: Older Readers, awardedAt: 63100800000
name: Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger
category: Roman, awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Nynorsk litteraturpris
publisher: Ballantine Books