The Fellowship of the Ring (Mass Market)

The Lord of the Rings: Part One

By J.R.R. Tolkien

Del Rey, 9780345339706, 480pp.

Publication Date: August 12, 1986

Other Editions of This Title:
Paperback (9/18/2012)
Paperback (6/1/2005)
Prebound (8/12/1986)
Paperback (9/1/2003)
Paperback (9/1/2002)
Paperback (9/1/2001)
Paperback (9/1/1999)
Prebound (8/1/1986)
Hardcover (9/1/2001)
Audio Cassette (6/1/2001)
Paperback (4/1/2008)

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Description

The opening novel of The Lord of the Rings—the greatest fantasy epic of all time—which continues in The Two Towers and The Return of the King.
 
Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read

The dark, fearsome Ringwraiths are searching for a Hobbit. Frodo Baggins knows that they are seeking him and the Ring he bears—the Ring of Power that will enable evil Sauron to destroy all that is good in Middle-earth. Now it is up to Frodo and his faithful servant, Sam, with a small band of companions, to carry the Ring to the one place it can be destroyed: Mount Doom, in the very center of Sauron’s realm.


About the Author

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was born on January 3, 1892, in Bloemfontein, South Africa. After serving in World War I, he embarked upon a distinguished academic career and was recognized as one of the finest philologists in the world. He was a professor of Anglo-Saxon at Oxford, a fellow of Pembroke College, and a fellow of Merton College until his retirement in 1959. He is, however, beloved throughout the world as the creator of Middle-earth and author of such classic works as The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. He died on September 2, 1973, at the age of eighty-one.


Praise For The Fellowship of the Ring: The Lord of the Rings: Part One…

“Filled with marvels and strange terrors . . . an extraordinary, distinguished piece of work.”—New York Herald Tribune