The Fellowship of the Ring

The Fellowship of the Ring is the first volume of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings, published in 1954. Frodo leaves the Shire carrying the One Ring, and the gathering at Rivendell establishes a company to help him take it towards destruction. The journey through unfamiliar lands tests trust among companions with different histories and loyalties. Memories, songs, and encounters disclose a world much older than the travellers’ immediate task. The volume gives the larger quest its human scale through friendship, uncertainty, and the temptation to use dangerous power for apparently worthy ends.