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The tale of the Great Ring starts here, when Mr. Bilbo Baggins, holds a party in honour of his eleventy-first birthday to which he has invited many friends and relations from Hobbiton. The celebration is also for his nephew Frodo who has come of age and inherits Bilbo's estate. After much eating, drinking, music, dancing, songs and games, and a fantastic magical firework display courtesy of Gandalf the Wizard, Bilbo makes a speech, the finale of which is his announcement that he will leave Hobbiton. At the precise moment that he says "Goodbye" he plays a trick on his audience by placing the ring on his finger and vanishes, much to the astonishment of everyone. After the party, Gandalf reprimands Bilbo for his behaviour, and suggests that before Bilbo leaves The Shire, that he should fulfil his promise to leave the Ring to Frodo, for Gandalf is wise and knows the danger and power of the ring. Grudgingly Bilbo agrees, and says his last farewell to his home and sets off as he wished - alone.

Many years after the party, Gandalf the Wizard returns to warn Frodo of disturbing news about the Ring, and tell him of its history and how Bilbo had won it from Gollum, and explains that Frodo must perform a very important task - to destroy the Great Ring. After much deliberation Frodo sets out in secret with his friends Sam and Pippin. They are in high spirits and little do they know that this will eventually become the longest and most arduous journey of their lives.

Frodo and his companions take rest at Bree, where they stay the night at the inn called the Prancing Pony. The locals rarely see Hobbits in this neck of the woods and with the ale flowing freely, there is lots of merriment. However young Pippin very nearly lets out the secret that Frodo has the Ring, and so Frodo attempts to distract everyones attention by getting up on the table, dancing and singing, drinking a bit more, and starts to enjoy himself, but eventually gets carried away by doing the very thing he shouldn't - he falls off the table, the Ring slips onto his finger, and he vanishes!

The Black Riders sent by the Dark Lord of Morder are hot on the heels of the hobbits, and their new found guide, Strider. Frodo has already been attacked by them and a poisoned knife tip is buried in his shoulder. They meet with Glorfindel the elf, and together they travel to the House of Elrond where Frodo can be healed of his wound. Before they can get there the Black Riders re-appear and give chase. Frodo tries to flee on Glorfindels horse, and crosses the ford where Gandalf the wizard commands the waters to swallow up the Dark Lords minions.

After being attacked by a frightening tentacled creature on the shore of a lake, Gandalf and the company escape through the Doors of Durin into the Mines of Moria, a dark and mysterious place, where Orcs and even stranger creatures lurk. After many hours of stumbling in the dark, they come to the tomb of Balin where once again they are attacked, this time by orcs who drive them across the Bridge of Khazad-Dûm. It is here that Gandalf risks his own life battling with the evil Balrog, so that the others can make their escape. Eventually they pass out of the dark mines, but are grief stricken at the loss of their friend Gandalf.

The company make haste, led by Legolas the Elf to the magical land of Lothlorien, where the Silverlode bubbles its way gently down the grassy valley slopes, and sunlight filters through the yellow leaves of the lofty mallorn trees. Here they are welcomed by the Lord Celeborn and Galadriel the Lady of Lorien, and they rest for several days

During their stay at Lothlorien, the Lady Galadriel takes Frodo and Sam to a secret garden through which flows a stream. She fills a silver basin with water from the stream, breaths upon the water, and when the ripples have quieted, invites them to look into the mirror-like surface so that they may see things in both the past and the future. Sam looks first and sees initially images of home, and then the folk back at the Shire making changes he would much rather not have seen. Frodo, then agrees to look also, whereupon he sees many visions, including Gandalf, Bilbo, the sea, battles, and a ship, but just as he is about to turn away, the mirror turns dark, and a single menacing Eye appears rimmed with fire, looking, searching for Frodo, compelling him to come to it, and the Ring grew heavier on its chain about Frodo's neck, dragging him downward..... but then Galadriel softly tells Frodo not to touch the water, and the Eye recedes back into the darkness.

After Merry and Pippin escape from the Orcs, they find themselves within the depths of a forest, and are quite amazed when, thinking they are alone, a deep voice commands them to turn around. They are confronted by a huge creature something like a tree, who they discover is an "Ent" - a tree-herd called Fangorn, or to some - Treebeard. They request his assistance, and after much Ent'ish deliberation, he decides to summon all the other Ents to march against their long-time enemy, Saruman the wizard, at Isengard

Gollum is the wretched little creature who is always there, just in the background of the tale, snuffling, scratching, sneaking about, constantly obsessed with the overwhelming desire to regain his selfish rightful ownership of the Ring, his "Precious". But insignificant as he is, Gollum ultimately plays a vital part in the quest.

While Frodo and Sam are making their weary way through the hills and forests towards Mount Doom, led by Smeagol (Gollum) who they have captured and made promise to serve their purposes, they are discovered by a band of men headed by Captain Faramir. It turns out that Faramir is the brother of Boromir, the warrior who died protecting Merry and Pippin from the Orcs. Faramir asks them to tell him all about their journey and what became of his brother, and in return offers them safe haven to take food and rest. They are led to a secret and tranquil cave hidden behind a huge waterfall where they are able to eat to their hearts content after many days of travel, and ready themselves for the next leg of their quest.

On route to Mount Doom, Sam, Frodo and Gollum have to make their way over a mountain range. Up and up they go, climbing the rocky steps to Cirith Ungol. Frodo and Sam are unaware however that Gollum has devised a plan to be rid of them and get his Precious back, by leading them into a network of foul smelling caves within which hides the dark form of Shelob, a witch of many years passed who has been turned into a giant spider. There she waits for any unsuspecting travellers, to trap them in her web. This is the closest the two hobbits come to their death! Stung by Shelob's fangs, Sam mistakenly presumes Frodo is dead, and promises to fulfill their journey's purpose by taking the ring himself. Leaving him, he carries on, but then a group of Orcs discover Frodo's body and take him into the Tower of Cirith Ungol past Sam who is invisible, having placed the ring on his finger. Sam realises his mistake - but too late, for the Orcs are fast and go into the tower shutting the gates behind them.

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Eventually Sam and Frodo are reunited, and the Orcs have revived Frodo from Shelobs poison with a horrid tasting potion. They escape and manage to travel nearer to Mount Doom, but once again become entangled with the Orcs, but this time because they are mistaken for Orcs themselves, and are forced to march at a great pace to the gates called Udun, the entrance to the plains of Gorgoroth far below the great mountain! During the commotion at the entrance they manage to slip away un-noticed and then find themselves alone again. They look ahead, weary and frightened across the rocky, pock marked landscape, and realise there must be another fifty miles distance to cover yet. The Ring grows ever heavier around Frodo's neck, who has begun hallucinating, and both hobbits wonder if they will make it alive. Sam has to carry his friend part of the way. As they grow slowly nearer a great red Eye looks out from the mountain, and passes over them in the sky but does not see them, being far too intent on the battles proceeding to the West. Frodo and Sam crawl onward and realise that they are again being followed by the wretched Gollum, who pounces upon them and tries to get the Ring again, but Frodo commands Gollum to leave them alone, and then marches on, leaving Sam to deliberate over whether he should kill Gollum. Once again, Sam spares him his life, and Gollum escapes. Sam follows after Frodo, and to his horror realises that his friend is now standing on the brink of the fiery chasm, but does not cast the Ring into it. Instead he places it upon his finger to claim it, and all its powers, for his own. At once he vanishes, but suddenly Gollum is seen fighting with an invisible force, Frodo, and in his last efforts to obtain the ring, bites off Frodos finger. Gollum like a demented demon, jumps up and down in glee, having at last got his Precious back, so much so that in his excitement he misses his footing and topples off the edge and down into the chasm to his death, and finally fulfills his part in the doom of the Great Ring.

The tale has come to an end, and many journeys and adventures have been made. There is celebration, and reuniting of old friends. There are fond memories of those lost in battles, and brave deeds. And finally Frodo declares that he must go with the Ring-bearers, Elrond and Galadriel to the Grey Havens, and then to the West of Middle-Earth, back to the land of the Elves. Gandalf, Frodo and the Elven King and Queen say their sorrowful good-byes to Merry, Pippin and Sam, and then board a great white ship, which slowly slips away over the horizon into the High Sea, while the three hobbits watch, sad, yet happy and triumphant, as their companions receed into the night.