For anyone who likes the genre to which it belongs, the Heroic Quest, I cannot imagine a more wonderful Christmas present....No fiction I have read in the last five years has given me more joy than The Fellowship of the Ring. ~W.H Auden; The New York Times Book review

The dark, fearsome Ringwraiths were searching for a hobbit. Frodo Baggins knew that they were seeking him and the ring he bore-the Ring of Power that would enable evil Sauron to destroy all that was good on middle earth. Now it was up to Frodo and his faithful servant, Sam, with a small band of companions, to carry the Ring to the one place it could be destroyed--Mount Doom, in the very center of Sauron's dark kingdom.