“It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to.”
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Originally published from 1954 through 1956, J.R.R. Tolkien's richly complex series ushered in a new age of epic adventure storytelling. A philologist and illustrator who took inspiration from his work, Tolkien invented the modern heroic quest novel from the ground up, creating not just a world, but a domain, not just a lexicon, but a language, that would spawn countless imitators and lead to the inception of the epic fantasy genre. Today, THE LORD OF THE RINGS is considered "the most influential fantasy novel ever written." (THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF FANTASY) During his travels across Middle-earth, the hobbit Bilbo Baggins had found the Ring. But the simple band of gold was far from ordinary; it was in fact the One Ring - the greatest of the ancient Rings of Power. Sauron, the Dark Lord, had infused it with his own evil magic, and when it was lost, he was forced to flee into hiding. But now Sauron's exile has ended and his power is spreading anew, fueled by the knowledge that his treasure has been found. He has gathered all the Great Rings to him, and will stop at nothing to reclaim the One that will complete his dominion. The only way to stop him is to cast the Ruling Ring deep into the Fire-Mountain at the heart of the land of Mordor--Sauron's dark realm. Fate has placed the burden in the hands of Frodo Baggins, Bilbo's heir...and he is resolved to bear it to its end. Or his own. ---------- **Contains** - [The Fellowship of the Ring][1] - [The Two Towers][2] - [The Return of the King][3] - [The Lord of the Rings [2/2]](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL27306128W) - [The Lord of the Rings [1/6]](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL24170898W) - [The Lord of the Rings [1/9]](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL27305953W) - [The Lord of the Rings [2/9]](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL27305892W) - [The Lord of the Rings [3/9]](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL27306048W) [1]: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL14933414W/The_Fellowship_of_the_Ring [2]: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL27479W/The_Two_Towers [3]: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL27516W/The_Return_of_the_King
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John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
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“It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to.”
“But in the end it's only a passing thing, this shadow; even darkness must pass.”
“It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish.”
“Pippin glanced in some wonder at the face now close beside his own, for the sound of that laugh had been gay and merry. Yet in the wizard's face he saw at first only lines of care and sorrow...”
“Roads Go Ever On Roads go ever ever on, Over rock and under tree, By caves where never sun has shone, By streams that never find the sea; Over snow by winter sown, And through the merry flow...”
“Maybe,' said Sam; 'but where there's life there's hope, as my gaffer used to say; and need of of vittles, as he mostways used to add. You have a bite, Mr. Frodo, and then a bit of sleep.”
“Three Rings for the Elven-kings under the sky, Seven for the Dwarf-lords in their halls of stone, Nine for Mortal Men, doomed to die, One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne In the Land of...”
“To the sea, to the sea! The white gulls are crying, The wind is blowing, and the white foam is flying. West, west away, the round sun is falling, Grey ship, grey ship, do you hear them calli...”
“Winter is nearly gone. Time flows on to a spring of little hope.”