ABOUT THE BOOKS

The Hobbit

'' 'But suddenly Gollum remembered thieving from nests long ago, and sitting under the river bank teaching his grandmother, teaching his grandmother to suck - ''Eggses!'' he hissed. ''Eggses it is!'' The he asked:

Alive without breath,

As cold as death;

Never thirsty, ever drinking,

All in mail never clinking.' ''

The tale of Bilbo begins here, when whisked from his comfortable hobbit-hole by Gandalf the Wizard and a band of Dwarves, Bilbo finds himself caught up in a plot to raid the treasure hoard of Smaug the Magnificent, a large and very dangerous dragon...

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'' 'What do you mean?' said Frodo, looking at him anxiously.

'Just this, my dear old Frodo: you are miserable, because you don't know how to say goodbye. You meant to leave the Shire, of course. But danger has come on sooner than you expected, and now you are making up you mind to go at once. And you don't want to. We are very sorry for you' ''

The Fellowship of the Ring is the first part of J.R.R. Tolkien's epic adventure The Lord of the Rings.

In a sleepy village in the Shire, a young Hobbit is entrusted with an immense task. He must make a perilous journey across Middle-Earth to the Crack of Doom, there to destroy the Ruling Ring of Power - the only thing that prevents the Dark Lord's evil dominion.

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'' 'How very sad!' said Pippin. 'How was it that they all died?'

'They did not die!' said Treebeard. 'I never said died. we lost them, I said. we lost them and we cannot find them.' He sighed. 'I thought most folk knew that, There are songs about the hunt of the Ents for Entwives sung among Elves and Men from Mirkwood to Gondor. They cannot be quite forgotten.' ''

The Two Towers is the second volume in Tolkien's epic adventure.

The Company of the Ring is sundered. Frodo and Sam continue their journey alone down the great River Anduin - alone that is, save for a mysterious creeping figure that follows wherever they go...

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The Return of the King

'' ' My diary. My unexpected journey. There and back again. And what happened after.

Adventures of Five Hobbits. The Tale of the Great Ring, compiled by Bilbo Baggins from his own observations and the accounts of his friends. What we did in the War of the Ring.

Here Bilbo's hand ended and Frodo had written:

THE DOWNFALL

OF THE

LORD OF THE RINGS

AND THE

RETURN OF THE KING' ''

The Return of the King is the third volume of the great journey!

The armies of the Dark Lord are massing as his evil shadow spreads ever wider. Men, Dwarves, Elves and Ents unite forces to do battle against the Dark. Meanwhile, Frodo and Sam struggle further into Mordor in their heroic quest to destroy the One Ring.

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