protagon**ts:
frodo baggins,a well-to-do hobbit from the shire who inherits the one ring from bilbo.frodo ** responsible for destroying the ring in the fire of mount doom.
samw**e gamgee,gardener for the bagginses,who accompanies frodo on the quest to destroy the ring.
meriadoc brandybuck,or merry,frodo's cousin and companion in the fellowship.
peregrin took,pip or pippin,frodo's cousin and companion in the fellowship.
gandalf,a wizard who aids frodo in h** quest.
aragorn,heir of **ildur and rightful king of arnor and gondor.
legolas,the elven prince who aids frodo and the fellowship.son of king thranduil,king of the elves of mirkwood.
gimli,son of glóin,the dwarf representative in the fellowship.
boromir,the f**oured son of denethor,ruling steward of gondor.
antagon**ts:
sauron,the dark lord and titular lord of the rings,a fallen maia who helped the elves forge the rings of power long ago.he forged the one ring in secret to control all the other rings of power.
the nazgûl or ringwraiths,nine servants of sauron.men of old,they were ensl**ed to the one ring through the rings of power.
the witch-king of angmar,the lord of the nazgûl,and sauron's most powerful servant,who commands sauron's army.
saruman,a corrupted wizard who seeks the one ring for himself.
gollum(named sméagol earlier in h** life)-a creature of hobbit origin who formerly possessed the one ring,which caused him to turn almost wholly evil and also g**e him unnaturally long life.
synops**
the lord of the rings
volume i·volume ii·volume iii
the story takes place in the context of h**torical events in middle-earth.long before the start of the novel the dark lord sauron forged the one ring to gain power over other rings held by the leaders of men,elves and dwarves.he ** defeated in battle,and **ildur cuts off h** ring and claims it as an heirloom for h** line.**ildur ** later killed by orcs,and the ring ** lost in the river anduin.over two thousand years later,the ring comes into the hands of the hobbit sméagol,who hides under the mountains,where the ring transforms him over the course of hundreds of years into a suspicious,corrupted being called gollum.eventually he loses the ring,and,as recounted in the hobbit,it ** found by bilbo baggins.meanwhile sauron takes a new physical form and reoccupies mordor,h** old realm.gollum sets out in search of the ring,but ** captured by sauron,who learns that bilbo has the ring.gollum ** set loose,and sauron,who needs the ring to regain h** full power,sends forth the ringwraiths,h** dark,fearsome servants,to seize it.
the novel begins in the shire,as frodo baggins inherits the ring from bilbo.both are unaware of its origin,but gandalf the grey,a wizard,learns of the ring's h**tory and adv**es frodo to take it away from the shire.frodo le**es,taking h** gardener and friend,samw**e("sam")gamgee,and two cousins,meriadoc("merry")brandybuck and peregrin("pippin")took,as companions.they nearly encounter the ringwraiths while still in the shire,but shake off pursuit by cutting through the old forest,where they are aided by the enigmatic and powerful tom bombadil.after le**ing the forest,they stop in the town of bree,where they meet aragorn,**ildur's heir,who joins them as guide and protector.they le**e bree after narrowly escaping attack,but the ringwraiths follow them to the look-out hill of weathertop,and wound frodo with a magical blade.aragorn leads the hobbits toward the refuge of rivendell,while frodo gradually succumbs to the wound.at the ford of bruinen,the ringwraiths attack again,but flood waters controlled by elrond,master of rivendell,r**e up and overwhelm them,s**ing the company.
frodo recovers in rivendell under the care of elrond.the council of elrond reveals much significant h**tory about sauron and the ring,as well as the news that sauron has corrupted the wizard saruman.the council decides that the threat of sauron ** too great and that the best course of action ** to destroy the ring by returning it to mount doom in mordor,where it was forged.frodo volunteers to take the ring,and a"fellowship of the ring"** chosen to accompany and protect him:sam,merry,pippin,aragorn,gandalf,gimli the dwarf,legolas the elf,and the man boromir,son of the ruling steward denethor of the realm of gondor.
after failing to cross the m**ty mountains via the pass below caradhras,the company pass through the mines of moria,where they are attacked by orcs.gandalf per**hes while fighting the ancient and terrible balrog,allowing the others to escape.the remaining company take refuge in the elven forest of lothlórien.with boats and gifts from the lady galadriel,the company then tr**el down the river anduin to the hill of amon hen.there boromir succumbs to the lure of the ring and attempts to take it from frodo,who breaks from the fellowship to continue the quest to mordor alone,though sam ins**ts on coming to ass**t and protect him.
meanwhile,orcs sent by sauron and saruman kill boromir and kidnap merry and pippin.aragorn,gimli and legolas pursue the orcs into the kingdom of rohan.merry and pippin escape when the orcs are slain by the rohirrim.the hobbits flee into fangorn forest,where they are befriended by the tree-like ents.in fangorn forest aragorn,gimli and legolas find not the hobbits but gandalf,resurrected after h** battle with the balrog and now the significantly powerful"gandalf the white".gandalf assures them that merry and pippin are safe,and they tr**el instead to rouse théoden,king of rohan,from a stupor of despair inflicted by saruman,and to aid the rohirrim in a stand against saruman's armies.théoden makes a stand at the fortress of helm's deep.gandalf rides off to gather soldiers while aragorn,legolas,and gimli ride with théoden to helm's deep.they are besieged by orcs,but gandalf arrives with re**rcements,and the orcs are defeated.
the ents attack **engard,trapping saruman in the tower of orthanc.gandalf,théoden and the others arrive at **engard to confront saruman.saruman refuses to acknowledge the error of h** ways,however,and gandalf strips him of h** rank and most of h** powers.merry and pippin rejoin the others and pippin looks into a palantír,a seeing-stone that sauron had used to communicate with saruman,unknowingly leading sauron to think that saruman has captured the ring-bearer,so gandalf takes pippin to gondor.
on their way to mordor,frodo and sam capture gollum,who has been following them from moria,and force him to guide them to mordor.finding mordor's main gate impassable,they tr**el toward a pass known to gollum.gollum betrays frodo by leading him to the great spider shelob in the tunnels of cirith ungol.frodo ** left seemingly dead by shelob's bite,but sam fights her off.sam takes the ring,and forces himself to le**e frodo.orcs find frodo's body,and sam learns that frodo ** not in fact dead,but unconscious.frodo ** carried to the tower of cirith ungol,and sam determines to rescue him.
sauron begins h** military assault upon gondor.gandalf arrives at minas tirith in gondor with pippin,to alert denethor of the impending attack.minas tirith ** besieged,and denethor,under the influence of sauron through another palantír,loses hope and commits **.aragorn,legolas and gimli come to gondor by the paths of the dead,where aragorn ra**es an undead army of oath-breakers in fulfilment of an old prophecy.the ghostly army help him to defeat the corsairs of umbar invading southern gondor,and the forces freed from the south,along with rohan's c**alry,help break the siege at minas tirith.
sam rescues frodo,and they journey through mordor.frodo weakens as they near mount doom,but ** aided by sam.meanwhile,in the climactic battle at the black gate of mordor,the vastly-outnumbered alliance of gondor and rohan fight desperately against sauron's armies,with the intent of diverting sauron's attention from mount doom.at the edge of the cracks of doom,frodo ** unable to res**t the ring,and claims it for himself.however,gollum reappears,struggles with frodo for the ring,and bites off frodo's finger,ring and all,but in so doing falls into the fire,taking the ring with him.the ring ** thus unmade.in the instant of its destruction,sauron per**hes,h** armies retreat,h** tower crumbles into dust,the ringwraiths d**integrate,and the war of the ring seemingly ends.aragorn ** crowned elessar,king of arnor and gondor,and marries h** long-time love,arwen,the daughter of elrond.
meanwhile,however,saruman has escaped h** captivity and ensl**ed the shire.the four returning hobbits ra**e a rebellion and overthrow him.saruman ** killed by h** former servant gríma wormtongue,who ** in turn killed by hobbit archers.the war of the ring thus comes to its true end on frodo's very doorstep.merry and pippin are acclaimed heroes.sam uses h** gifts from galadriel to restore the shire,and marries rosie cotton.frodo remains wounded in body and spirit,and some years later,accompanied by bilbo and gandalf,sails from the grey h**ens west over the sea to the undying lands to find peace.sam returns home,and eventually becomes mayor of the shire.after rosie's death,sam gives h** daughter the red book of westmarch,containing the story of bilbo,frodo,sam,pippin and merry.he crosses west over the sea,the last of the ring-bearers.
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