The Lord of the Rings · Book 1
The Fellowship of the Ring
- Published
- 29 July 1954
- Pages
- 492
- ISBN-13
- 9780008537722
- Type
- novel
About this book
The Fellowship of the Ring opened Tolkien's novel in July 1954 at 492 pages, introducing Frodo Baggins's inheritance of the One Ring and the fellowship that leaves the Shire to see it destroyed.
Its place in The Lord of the Rings
The Fellowship of the Ring is book 1 in the The Lord of the Rings series. It is followed by The Two Towers. See the full The Lord of the Rings reading order.
When the hobbit Frodo Baggins inherits a plain gold ring from his uncle Bilbo, he learns it is the One Ring — the master weapon forged by the Dark Lord Sauron to dominate Middle-earth, lost for centuries and now hunted again. Frodo leaves the safety of the Shire with a small fellowship of men, elves, dwarves and hobbits, and the story splits into two journeys: the desperate trek to destroy the Ring in the fires of Mount Doom, and the gathering war to hold off Sauron's armies while that quest has any chance of…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780345248275
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780345296054
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9783608952124