The Return of the King is the dramatic conclusion to the trilogy, in which Frodo and Sam come face to face with the ultimate temptation and barely escape with their lives. While Merry and Pippin battle orcs and convince the Ents to join their cause, others fight battles with magic and swords, Frodo and Sam continue their journey and discover a treacherous guide in Gollum.
In The Two Towers, characters are divided into different plots. Frodo is handed a quest to destroy the ring by the wizard Gandolf, and on his journey is accompanied by his hobbit friends, the man Aragorn, the dwarf Gimli, and the elf Legolas. The Fellowship of the Ring sets the pace of the trilogy, beginning in the Shire, where Bilbo Baggins hands over the ring to Frodo. If the one ring is returned to Saron, the whole of Middle Earth will be at his mercy. However, the dark lord Sauron of Mordor made one ring that could command them all. This fantasy series takes place in Middle Earth, where three rings were made for the elves, seven for the dwarves, and nine made for men. Or his own.The Trilogy of the Lord of the Rings set includes The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, and The Return of the King. The only way to stop him is to cast the Ruling Ring deep into the Fire-Mountain at the heart of the land of Mordor-Sauron's dark realm.įate has placed the burden in the hands of Frodo Baggins, Bilbo's heir.and he is resolved to bear it to its end. He has gathered all the Great Rings to him, and will stop at nothing to reclaim the One that will complete his dominion. Sauron, the Dark Lord, had infused it with his own evil magic, and when it was lost, he was forced to flee into hiding.īut now Sauron's exile has ended and his power is spreading anew, fueled by the knowledge that his treasure has been found. But the simple band of gold was far from ordinary it was in fact the One Ring - the greatest of the ancient Rings of Power. Today, THE LORD OF THE RINGS is considered "the most influential fantasy novel ever written." (THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF FANTASY)ĭuring his travels across Middle-earth, the hobbit Bilbo Baggins had found the Ring. A philologist and illustrator who took inspiration from his work, Tolkien invented the modern heroic quest novel from the ground up, creating not just a world, but a domain, not just a lexicon, but a language, that would spawn countless imitators and lead to the inception of the epic fantasy genre. Tolkien's richly complex series ushered in a new age of epic adventure storytelling. Originally published from 1954 through 1956, J.R.R.
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