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The Lord of the Rings

The Lord of the Rings

J.R.R. Tolkien

CliffsNotes on The Lord of the Rings follows Frodo's adventures in Middle-earth through J.R.R. Tolkien's The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, and The Return of the King. When the hobbit Frodo receives the One Ring, forged by the evil Sauron, he joins Sam, Pippin, Merry, Gandalf, Aragorn, Legolas, Boromir, and Gimli on a dangerous quest to cast the ring into the fires of Mount Doom in Mordor. Lord of the Rings was pivotal in the development of the fantasy genre as it appears today.

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  1. Elves
  2. Men
  3. Dwarves
  4. Hobbits
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