![]() Gandalf the wizard plummets to death in battle with a fiery balrog and comes to life one volume later. ![]() In the course of the journey into the bowels of Mordor, the Fellowship is broken up byĭefection and the Great War. They designate young Frodo to lead the Fellowship, carry the ring back to its source, throw it into the fires of Doom. At the Council of Elrond, the Free People of the World-hobbits, elves, dwarves and men-decide the ring must be destroyed. But, like all power, the power of the ring sooner or later devours its possessor. The ring makes its wearer invisible, heightens his sensory perception, and somehow gives him power over the rings of the other lords and kings. Long ago, in the Third Age of Middle-earth, a resourceful hobbit gained possession of (stole) the One Ring of Power that had been forged in Mount Doom by Sauron, Dark Lord of the Dark Tower of Mordor. They memorize genealogies of dwarf kings and decipher the language of the elfin song: " Ai! laurie lante lassie surimenl" Why?įor one thing, they like the story. ![]() Tolkien enthusiasts scrawl the name of their hero-hobbit on subway walls: FRODO LIVES. Tolkien, British philologist, author of The Hobbit and the trilogy The Lord of the Rings, the in-cult best-selling paperbacks in America today. They eat six meals a day, smoke pipes and live in holes. Hobbits, as everyone now knows, are little people-between two and four feet tall-with lackadaisical ways and furry feet. I felt that we all had more pressing things to do than slip away from the world of our daily experience-turning our backs on the inner city to tramp over and under the Misty Mountains with hobbits, ores, trolls, elves and deep-throated singing dwarves. I turned the 1,781 pages of the works of J.
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