
They come to Bree, but Gandalf is not there. The four hobbits journey eastwards through the Old Forest, and over the Barrow-downs. Frodo's cousins, Meriadoc "Merry" Brandybuck and Peregrin "Pippin" Took also come with them. On their way to leave the Shire they are already followed by Sauron's Ringwraiths. Then Gandalf leaves.įrodo and Sam prepare to leave the Shire in September 3018. Gandalf promises to meet the two hobbits halfway in the town Bree. Samwise Gamgee, Frodo's gardener and servant, will go with Frodo. Gandalf tells Frodo that he has to leave the Shire and take the One Ring to Rivendell, an Elven city. Sauron is now also searching for the Ring. Sauron is returning and getting more powerful, because he could not die while the Ring still existed. He tells Frodo that his 'magic ring' is really the One Ring of Sauron, and tells him its backstory. In April of the year 3018, the wizard Gandalf the Grey, who is a friend of Bilbo and Frodo, comes to Bag End. For another eighteen years nothing happens in Frodo's life. His home, Bag End, and the One Ring now belong to Frodo. After a birthday party for his 111th birthday, and Frodo's 33rd birthday, Bilbo leaves the Shire. But Bilbo wants to make another long journey. Sixty years after his adventures in the book The Hobbit, Bilbo Baggins is living in the Shire with his adopted cousin Frodo Baggins. The book begins in the Third Age of Middle-earth, in the Shire, the land of the hobbits. The story The Fellowship of the Ring Book I There the One Ring stayed until the beginning of the story of The Lord of the Rings. Bilbo keeps it, and brings it back with him to the Shire at the end of his journey. He thinks it is an unimportant 'magic ring' that simply makes its wearer invisible. In The Hobbit the Ring is found by the hobbit Bilbo Baggins.
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Sméagol went to live under the Misty Mountains, where he kept the Ring for five hundred years, and he became known by the name Gollum. In the Third Age, the Ring was found by the Stoor hobbit Déagol, who was killed by his friend Sméagol over the Ring. Isildur tried to escape, but he was killed when he lost the Ring.

The One Ring was lost when Isildur was attacked by Orcs. The elves told Isildur to destroy the One Ring, but Isildur did not want to and kept it. His spirit still existed as long as the Ring existed. Sauron was defeated and the war ended.īecause half of Sauron's power was in the One Ring, Sauron did not die fully.

After his father's death, Elendil' son Isildur cut off the One Ring from Sauron's hand. In the last battle, Gil-galad and Elendil were killed by Sauron. There was a long war and siege of Sauron's fortress Barad-dûr. Led by Gil-galad and Elendil, the Elves and the Men of Gondor and Arnor formed the Last Alliance of Men and Elves to fight Sauron. These human kings became the Nazgûl, the Ringwraiths, ghostly servants of Sauron. Seven of these rings he gave to the kings of the dwarves, and nine rings he gave to human kings. During this war he took back the sixteen rings which he had made together with the Elves. But the Elves finally realized that Annatar really was the evil Sauron and hid the Rings of Power.

He planned to control the wearers of the other rings with this One Ring. In this Ring Sauron put half of his power. But Sauron secretly forged a Great Ring of his own, the One Ring. These nineteen rings were the Rings of Power. The Elves also made three rings by themselves, called Vilya, Nenya and Narya. Sauron and the elves together made sixteen rings.
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As Annatar he told the elves how to make magical rings which give power to their wearers. He disguised himself as Annatar, the "Lord of Gifts", and pretended to be good. In the Second Age, the Dark Lord Sauron wanted to rule Middle-earth. The backstory of The Lord of the Rings begins thousands of years before the action in the book. Tolkien never liked it being published in three parts or called a trilogy. Tolkien himself had sub-divided The Lord of the Rings into six parts, called Book I-VI, according to the plot. The Lord of the Rings is often called a trilogy, because the publisher split the book into three parts because of the book's size. It is one of the most popular stories in 20th-century literature and has been an important book for the fantasy genre. Since then, The Lord of the Rings has been translated into 38 languages. It was originally published in three parts in the years 19. He also moved its (and The Hobbit's) story into his fictional world Middle-earth, which he had already invented long before he wrote The Hobbit. The Lord of the Rings began as a sequel to Tolkien's earlier fantasy book, The Hobbit, but quickly became a much larger story.
