While Frodo and Sam made their escape the rest of the company were attacked by Orcs. They have lost the wizard, Gandalf, in the battle with an evil spirit in the Mines of Moria and at the Falls of Rauros, Boromir, seduced by the power of the Ring, tried to seize it by force. Jacket flap.įrodo and the Companions of the Ring have been beset by danger during their quest to prevent the Ruling Ring from falling into the hands of the Dark Lord by destroying it in the Cracks of Doom. In fact the saga is sui generis - a triumph of imagination which springs to life within its own framework and on its own terms.
Donald Barr has described it as "a scrubbed morning world, and a ringing nightmare world.especially sunlit, and shadowed by perils very fundamental, of a peculiarly uncompounded darkness." The story of this world is one of high and heroic adventure. Critic Michael Straight has hailed it as one of the "very few works of genius in recent literature." Middle-earth is a world receptive to poets, scholars, children, and all other people of good will. It is at once a classic myth and a modern fairy tale. Since its original British publication in 1954-55, the saga has entranced readers of all ages. Tolkien's three-volume epic, is set in the imaginary world of Middle-earth - home to many strange beings, and most notably hobbits, a peace-loving "little people," cheerful and shy. Baggins, frodo (fictitious character), fiction,īaggins, bilbo (fictitious character), fiction
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