Isildur had cut the One Ring from Sauron's hand in the battle ending the Second Age, but refused to destroy it, claiming it for himself. Strider is revealed to be Aragorn, the heir of Isildur. The Council of Elrond discusses the history of Sauron and the Ring. The Nazgûl nearly capture Frodo at the Ford of Bruinen, but upon attempting to cross the ford flood waters summoned by Elrond, master of Rivendell, and Gandalf, rise up and overwhelm the Nazgul.įrodo recovers in Rivendell under Elrond's care. Glorfindel rides with Frodo, now deathly ill, toward Rivendell.
After fighting off the Nazgûl, Strider treats Frodo with the herb athelas, and is joined by the elf Glorfindel who has been searching for the party. During the struggle, the Lord of the Nazgûl wounds Frodo with a cursed blade. While at Weathertop, they are again attacked by five of the nine Black Riders.
Strider identifies the riders as the Nazgûl, men from ancient times that were enslaved by lesser Rings of Power to serve Sauron. On the way to Rivendell, the group stops at the hill Weathertop. Knowing the riders will attempt to seize the party, Strider cunningly avoids their attack and leads the hobbits through the wilderness toward the Elven sanctuary of Rivendell. The innkeeper gives Frodo a letter from Gandalf written three months before which identifies Strider as a friend. The hobbits reach the village of Bree, where they encounter a Ranger named Strider. Leaving the refuge of Tom's house, they get lost in a fog and are caught by a barrow-wight in a barrow on the downs, but Frodo, awakening from the barrow-wight's spell, calls Tom Bombadil, who frees them, and equips them with ancient swords from the barrow-wight's hoard. Merry and Pippin are trapped by Old Man Willow, an ancient tree who controls much of the forest, but are rescued by Tom Bombadil. They decide to try to shake off the Black Riders by cutting through the Old Forest. When they reach the house at Crickhollow, Merry and Pippin reveal they know about the Ring and insist on travelling with Frodo and Sam. The hobbits spend the night with them, then take an evasive short cut the next day, and arrive at the farm of Farmer Maggot, who takes them to Bucklebury Ferry, where they meet their friend Merry Brandybuck. They are pursued by mysterious Black Riders, but meet a passing group of Elves led by Gildor Inglorion, whose chants to Elbereth ward off the Riders. Gandalf leaves, promising to return by Frodo's birthday and accompany him on his journey, but fails to do so.įrodo sets out on foot, offering a cover story of moving to Crickhollow, accompanied by his gardener Sam Gamgee and his cousin Pippin Took. Seventeen years later, Gandalf tells Frodo that he has confirmed that the Ring is the one lost by the Dark Lord Sauron long ago and counsels him to take it away from the Shire. Neither hobbit is aware of the Ring's origin, but the wizard Gandalf suspects it is a Ring of Power. Gandalf proves that Frodo's Ring is the One Ring by throwing it into Frodo's fireplace, revealing the hidden text of the Rhyme of the Rings.īilbo celebrates his eleventy-first birthday and leaves the Shire suddenly, passing the Ring to Frodo Baggins, his cousin and heir. It explains how the narrative follows on from The Hobbit, in which the hobbit Bilbo Baggins finds the One Ring, which had been in the possession of Gollum. The prologue explains that the work is "largely concerned with hobbits", telling of their origins in a migration from the east, their habits such as smoking " pipe-weed", and how their homeland the Shire is organised. The body of the volume consists of Book One: The Ring Sets Out, and Book Two: The Ring Goes South. The volume contains a Prologue for readers who have not read The Hobbit, and background information to set the stage for the novel. In many other editions, the books are untitled. The titles The Ring Sets Out and The Ring Goes South were used in the Millennium edition. The name of the second was The Journey of the Nine Companions or The Ring Goes South.
Of the two books that comprise what became The Fellowship of the Ring the first was to be called The First Journey or The Ring Sets Out. However, he had proposed titles for the individual six sections. The original publisher decided to split the work into three parts.īefore the decision to publish The Lord of the Rings in three volumes was made, Tolkien had hoped to publish the novel in one volume, possibly also combined with The Silmarillion. Tolkien envisioned The Lord of the Rings as a single volume work divided into six sections he called "books" along with extensive appendices.
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