The Fellowship of the Ring is the first of three volumes in The Lord of
the Rings, an epic set in the fictional world of Middle-earth. The Lord of
the Rings is an entity named Sauron, the Dark Lord, who long ago lost the
One Ring that contains much of his power. His overriding desire is to
reclaim the Ring and use it to enslave all of Middle-earth.
The story of The Lord of the Rings begins with several events that take place in The
Hobbit. While wandering lost in a deep cave, Bilbo Baggins, a Hobbit—one
of a small, kindly race about half the size of Men—stumbles upon a ring
and takes it back with him to the Shire, the part of Middle-earth that is
the Hobbits’ home. All Bilbo knows of his ring is that wearing it causes
him to become invisible. He is unaware that it is the One Ring, and is
therefore oblivious to its significance and to the fact that Sauron has
been searching for it.
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