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Reader reviewed by Mike

The Fellowship is one of my all-time favorite books. I have read it 8 or 9 times.

J.R.R. Tolkien as a child was involved in a literature club, in which he entertained fantasies and a world of chivalry which he thought had been lost to this world. The Fellowship is one of his first books pertaining to his great creation: Middle Earth.

If you read The Hobbit, (which I recommend reading first before anything else) you will become well aquainted with Hobbits, the small but doughty people of the shire.

The main character of the story is Frodo Baggins, who possesses a magic ring passed on to him by his uncle, Bilbo. The ring seems at first a mere quaint and trivial item with which to hide from nosy outsiders. But Gandalf, the grey wizard of ancient origin, has a hunch that this is otherwise. In the Chapter- The Shadow of the Past, Frodo finds out that the ring is more deadly, dark, and terrifying than anything beyond his comprehension. If a person holds this ring, before long it would possess him, and in the end- devour him. He would be a living nothing, and shadow. He would fade. This was the one ring which the Dark Lord Sauron needed to cover all the lands in a second darkness. So begins a quest to destroy the ring in the only place it can be: Orodruin, Mount Doom in the western toungue, the place where it was made. Mt. Doom lies in faraway Mordor, the lair of the Dark Lord.

Thus it begins, from Frodo's doorstep the the Land of Mordor. This Book is all about his journey, with eight Companions, dubbed- the Fellowship. Representatives from each race were chosen, on a mission to destroy the ring.
The rest that follows is for you to read.

Let me warn you- the books are far better than the movies. They may go slow at first, but that only adds depth to it. Stick to it, and you will be glad. But I do recommend you read the Hobbit first if you have not.

Happy Reading~~