“The Enemy still lacks one thing to give him strength and knowledge to beat down all resistance, break the last defences, and cover all the lands in a second darkness. He greatly desires it – but he must not get it…” This is the One Ring that he lost many ages ago, to the great weakening of his power. ‘ “This is the Master-ring, the One Ring to rule them all. I think it likely that some would resist the Ring far longer than most of the Wise would believe…”Īfter years searching for information about the identity of the Ring, Gandalf returns to the Shire to tell Frodo what he has discovered: “ Among the Wise I am the only one that goes in for hobbit-lore… Soft as butter they can be, and yet sometimes as tough as old tree-roots. The world at large seems to either be unaware of the existence of hobbits or views them as insignificant… except Gandalf: In the early chapters, it becomes apparent there are hidden depths to this unassuming race. I enjoyed spending all that time with the hobbits, getting to know them and understanding their qualities as much of the story revolves around our main hobbit characters.Īnd those hobbits are Frodo Baggins, his gardener, Samwise Gamgee, and close friends and cousins, Merry and Pippin.Įach is a distinct character, so there’s no danger of confusing one for another. Practically the whole of the first part of ‘ The Fellowship of the Ring’, ‘ The Ring Sets Out’, is focussed on the hobbits, first in the Shire, and then when they leave on their journey. Small-sized with large hairy feet and even larger appetites, hobbits are easy-going and friendly, preferring a quiet, peaceful life. With its picturesque gardens and farms, not to mention numerous taverns, the Shire is obviously based on a romanticised version of what rural England was like in Tolkien’s childhood. Of the many characters we’re introduced to in ‘ The Lord of the Rings’, Tolkien spends the most time with the hobbits, an ‘ unobtrusive but very ancient people’ in the Shire where the story begins. I’d say he did exactly that and more as this book and everything he wrote to do with Middle-earth come together in the manner of a mythology created to replace the one that had been wiped out by the Norman invasion.
In his letter to Milton Waldman, Tolkien said, “ … I had a mind to make a body of more or less connected legend…” which he wanted to dedicate to England. While ‘ The Lord of the Rings’ is in the fantasy genre, it’s a combination of fantasy and history, albeit a history of a fictional world. Instead, this will be a post on what, for me, makes this story stand head and shoulders above the fantasy books I’ve read. So, I won’t write a review in the way I usually do as there’s too much to talk about. I started writing this as I do all my reviews, beginning with the setup, followed by an overview of the first few pages while introducing the key players, but, when I read it over, it came across… flat. One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie. Seven for the Dwarf-lords in their halls of stone, ‘ Three Rings for the Elven-kings under the sky, There he must destroy the Ring forever and foil the Dark Lord in his evil purpose.’īefore the story begins, there’s a verse about the Rings of Power:
#FRODO BAGGINS BOOKS CRACK#
He must leave his home and make a perilous journey across the realms of Middle-earth to the Crack of Doom, deep inside the territories of the Dark Lord.
In a sleepy village in the Shire, young Frodo Baggins finds himself faced with an immense task, as the Ring is entrusted 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. The reason it was published as 3 volumes was due to post-war paper shortages. Tolkien had written it as a single novel. Instead of 3 separate reviews, this will be a review of the whole book as J.R.R.
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