Volume 664 pages
The Fellowship of the Ring
About the book
The first part of J. R. R. Tolkien’s epic adventure THE LORD OF THE RINGS‘A most remarkable feat’ GuardianIn a sleepy village in the Shire, a young hobbit is entrusted with an immense task. He must make a perilous journey across Middle-earth to the Cracks of Doom, there to destroy the Ruling Ring of Power – the only thing that prevents the Dark Lord Sauron’s evil dominion.Thus begins J. R. R. Tolkien’s classic tale of adventure, which continues in The Two Towers and The Return of the King.
‘confusing (as it does) real personal
They possessed from the first the art of disappearing swiftly and silently, when large folk whom they do not wish to meet come blundering by;
but neither they nor any but the oldest of their elders had seen one of his firework displays
But the chief importance of Findegil’s copy is that it alone contains the whole of Bilbo’s ‘Translations from the Elvish’
There was a great deal in the background of their minds and memories that was very similar
