JRR Tolkien - novel - 1954 - p. 198    

The first installment of JRR Tolkien’s classic Lord of the Rings trilogy, Fellowship of the Ring is set in a fictional realm called Middle Earth, which is inhabited by creatures including humans, elves, goblins, dwarves, wizards, and hobbits--short, human-like beings renowned for their resilience and love of food. The wizard Gandalf, a longtime friend of hobbit Bilbo Baggins and Bilbo’s nephew, Frodo, sends Frodo to deliver Bilbo’s magical ring to Elrond, an elf king. Gandalf believes Frodo and the ring will be safe there, but an interracial Council decides that the ring must be destroyed lest the evil Sauron find it and return to power.

With Frodo as ringbearer, a group of four hobbits, two humans, one elf, one dwarf, and Gandalf set off for Mordor, where they will cast the ring into the fires of Mt. Doom, its place of origin. However, the pull of the ring is powerful, and Boromir--one of the humans--eventually attempts to wrest it from Frodo. At the end of the book, Frodo and Sam have broken off from the rest of the Fellowship after a narrow escape from Boromir.

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