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The Fellowship of the Ring

Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings

by J.R.R. Tolkien ยท 1954

The hobbit Frodo Baggins inherits a ring of terrible power and must keep it from the Dark Lord who made it.

About This Series

Tolkien's single novel, published in three volumes from 1954. The Fellowship of the Ring is the first. Written by a philologist who built the languages before the story, it remains the work most modern fantasy is measured against, and its concerns are less about victory than about endurance, loss, and what cannot be carried home.

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