"In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit."
With these words began the greatest literary journey of modern times. The great creativity of John Ronald Reuel Tolkien put an indellible mark our society, and has changed the fantasy genre forever. And this is where it began: with a simpe line, written on the back of a paper one day.

The story, subtitled 'There and Back Again', follows the adventures of the hobbit Bilbo Baggins as he travels across the lands of Middle-earth with a band of Dwarves and a wizard named Gandalf on a quest to restore a dwarven kingdom and a great treasure stolen by the dragon, Smaug.

The magic ring found by Bilbo on his adventures is the key to a much greater plot involving the fate of the whole world, though no one knew it at the time.


The Hobbit
Or There and Back Again



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"One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them,
One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them"
This is the inscription upon Bilbo's ring, the One Ring, the ring created by the Dark Lord Sauron, a ring so evil it will enslave anyone who uses it. It must be destroyed. Setting out to accomplish that impossible task is one of the most unlikely people imaginable: Frodo Baggins, a hobbit. Persued by the most feared agents of The Enemy, Frodo must journey from one end of Middle Earth to the other, in constant danger not only from exterior perils, but from the Ring as well. He is aided only by a small group of companions: the wizard Gandalf, the ranger Aragorn, Boromir of Gondor, the elf Legolas, stalwart dwarf Gimli, and his friends Merry, Pippin, and Sam. The fate of the whole world rests upon their shoulders. It is a story so gripping it is still exciting on the tenth and twentieth reads.

And that's just a short summary.

The Lord of the Rings, comprised of three published parts (The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, and The Return of the King), has been called every great adjective one could imagine, and then some. It has received more acclaim than perhaps any other book of modern times. It is timeless. It is the trilogy all other fantasy is compared to. It has been said that only two types of people in the English world exist: those who have read The Lord of the Rings, and those who are going to. And it has been translated into many more languages and enjoyed by people worldwide. Now, fifty years after being published, the greatest work of J.R.R. Tolkien has become so much more to our society than the professor himself ever could have dreamed.




The Lord of the Rings Trilogy


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The Fellowship of the Ring
Book One


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The Two Towers
Book Two


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The Return of the King
Book Three


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