The Fellowship of the Ring (BBC Full Cast Dramatization)
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Product Description <br/>Frodo Baggins knew the Ringwraiths were searching for him--and the Ring of Power he bore that would enable Sauran to destroy all that was good in Middle-earth. Now it was up to Frodo and his faithful servant Sam to carry the Ring to where it could be detroyed--in the very center of Sauron's dark kingdom.<br/><br/><br/><br/>From the Paperback edition.<br/> From the Inside Flap <br/>Frodo Baggins knew the Ringwraiths were searching for him--and the Ring of Power he bore that would enable Sauran to destroy all that was good in Middle-earth. Now it was up to Frodo and his faithful servant Sam to carry the Ring to where it could be detroyed--in the very center of Sauron's dark kingdom.<br/>From the Paperback edition.<br/> From the Back Cover <br/>s knew the Ringwraiths were searching for him--and the Ring of Power he bore that would enable Sauran to destroy all that was good in Middle-earth. Now it was up to Frodo and his faithful servant Sam to carry the Ring to where it could be detroyed--in the very center of Sauron's dark kingdom.<br/><br/><br/><br/>From the Paperback edition.<br/> Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. <br/>The Fellowship of the Ring<br/><br/>By J. R. R. Tolkien<br/>Random House Audio Publishing Group<br/>Copyright © 2001<br/>J. R. R. TolkienAll right reserved.<br/><br/>ISBN: 9780553714777<br/><br/>THE LORD OF THE RINGS<br/>THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING<br/>BOOK ONE<br/>Chapter 1<br/>A Long-Expected Party<br/>When Mr. Bilbo Baggins of Bag End announced that he would shortly be<br/>celebrating his eleventy-first birthday with a party of special<br/>magnificence, there was much talk and excitement in Hobbiton.<br/> Bilbo was very rich and very peculiar, and had been the<br/>wonder of the Shire for sixty years, ever since his remarkable<br/>disappearance and unexpected return. The riches he had brought back<br/>from his travels had now become a local legend, and it was popularly<br/>believed, whatever the old folk might say, that the Hill at Bag End<br/>was full of tunnels stuffed with treasure. And if that was not enough<br/>for fame, there was also his prolonged vigour to marvel at. Time wore<br/>on, but it seemed to have little effect on Mr. Baggins. At ninety he<br/>was much the same as at fifty. At ninety-nine they began to call him<br/>well-preserved; but unchanged would have been nearer the mark. There<br/>were some that shook their heads and thought this was too much of a<br/>good thing; it seemed unfair that anyone should possess (apparently)<br/>perpetual youth as well as (reputedly) inexhaustible wealth.<br/> "It will have to be paid for," they said. "It isn"t natural,<br/>and trouble will come of it!"<br/><br/> But so far trouble had not come; and as Mr. Baggins was<br/>generous with his money, most people were willing to forgive him his<br/>oddities and his good fortune. He remained on visiting terms with his<br/>relatives (except, of course, the Sackville-Bagginses), and he had<br/>many devoted admirers among the hobbits of poor and unimportant<br/>families. But he had no close friends, until some of his younger<br/>cousins began to grow up.<br/> The eldest of these, and Bilbo"s favourite, was young Frodo<br/>Baggins. When Bilbo was ninety-nine he adopted Frodo as his heir, and<br/>brought him to live at Bag End; and the hopes of the Sackville-<br/>Bagginses were finally dashed. Bilbo and Frodo happened to have the<br/>same birthday, September 22nd. "You had better come and live here,<br/>Frodo my lad," said Bilbo one day; "and then we can celebrate our<br/>birthday-parties comfortably together." At that time Frodo was still<br/>in his tweens, as the hobbits called the irresponsible twenties<br/>between childhood and coming of age at thirty-three.<br/> Twelve more years passed. Each year the Bagginses had given<br/>very lively combined birthday-parties at Bag End; but now it was<br/>understood that something quite exceptional was being planned for<br/>that autumn. Bilbo was going to be eleventy-one, 111, a rather<br/>curious number, and a very respectable age for a hobbit (the Old Took<br/>himself had only reached 130); and Frodo was going to be thirty-<br/>three, 33, an important number: the date of his