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This is the newest addition to my wonderful list of obsessions. The Lord of the Rings!! I have finally finished reading the Silmarillion!! *sniffs emotionally* It took a while.. but I've finally done it! *bows to the adoring crowd* Thankyou, thankyou!  As Siyang said - "It is just like a history book." For the minor percentage of the population who don't know what Lord of the Ring is about (shame on you... at least go and watch the movie!!), I've done a brief summary - scroll down to read it.... but beware. MAJOR SPOILERS!!

I'm sorry but I won't go into the details about Illuvatar and the Ainur.. Melkor, the creation of everything.. All the wars and stuff on the Silmarils! Go and read the Silmarillion for that! I'll just concentrate on the basic plot of the trilogy. (Click on the links on the left for more info)

   

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Basically, the story starts off in "The Hobbit" - where Bilbo Baggins finds a golden ring in Gollum's cave under the mountain. During that book, the ring is merely used to make people invisible. However, the truth is - the ring is a very powerful magic ring made by Sauron. I'll just quote from the FOTR: "It began with the forging of the Great Rings. Three were given to the Elves: immortal, wisest and fairest of all beings. Seven to the dwarf-lords: great miners and craftsmen of the mountain halls. And nine rings were gifted to the race of men, who above all else desire power. For within these rings was bound the strength and will to govern each race. But they were all of them deceived. For another ring was made. In the land of Mordor, in the fires of Mount Doom, the Dark Lord Sauron forged in secret a master ring to control all others. And into this ring he poured his cruelty, his malice, and his will to dominate all life. One Ring to rule them all. One by one, free lands of Middle Earth fell to the power of the ring. But there were some who resisted. A last alliance of Men and Elves marched against the armies of Mordor. And on the slopes of Mount Doom, they fought for the freedom of Middle-earth." Of course, Sauron was defeated and the ring was taken by Isildur (king of the men). He refused to destroy the ring by throwing it into the fires of Mount Doom. The ring betrayed him to his death.

The ring was lost and forgotten - until people didn't remember it anymore. To keep it simple, it was found by Smeagol a.k.a. Gollum. (Actually that isn't true, his friend found it but he killed his friend and took the ring. ^^ Saying it was a b'day present. Read LOTR for more info..) Anyway, Gollum took it with him inside the mountain - the ring brought to Gollum unnatural long life. For 500 years it poisoned his mind. And in the gloom of Gollum's cave it waited. Darkness crept back in the forest of the world. Rumour grew of a shadow in the East, whispers of a nameless fear. And the ring of power perceived it's time had now come. It abandoned Gollum. But something happened then, the ring did not intend. It was picked up by Bilbo Baggins of The Shire (blah blah blah.. you know the rest).

At the beginning of the book, Bilbo holds his 111th b'day party before leaving for Rivendell (Elrond's place where elves live). Gandalf the Grey(Bilbo's wizard friend) finds out the evil ring and basically, Frodo (Bilbo's nephew) has to go on a quest to Mount Doom to destroy the ring. He goes first to Rivendell with his hobbit pals - Sam, Pippin and Merry. On his way there, he meets Strider a.k.a Aragorn. The Nine Ringwraiths are out and about looking for the ring to bring back to their master, Sauron. (The Ringwraiths are the nine men that were given the rings in the first place - they got corrupted by evil and power.) Frodo getz stabbed by the leader of the Ringwraiths and is dying. Glorfindel (great elven warrior) comes and takes him to Rivendell, to get healed by Elrond. (Note: In the movie, Arwen comes instead of Glorfindel.. stupid cheapos, couldn't they just get another person to play Glorfy?!) Elrond has a daughter called Arwen/ Undomiel  (Evenstar of her people) who is Aragorn's lover. Anyway, in Rivendell - the Fellowship of the Ring is formed. There is a representative from each race - Legolas Greenleaf (elven prince of Mirkwood ^^), Gimli (dwarf), Aragorn and Boromir (Men). Frodo volunteers to be the Ringbearer and his hobbit pals come along with him. Gandalf is their leader and advisor. So, the nine set off for Mount Doom to destroy the Ring.

During the first book, they go through the Mines of Moria and Lothlorien - home of Galadriel and Celeborn (oh yeah, and also Haldir ^^). An important fact: Gandalf dies in the Mines of Moria because of a Balrog. Before they leave, Galadriel gives them some lembas (elvish wafer thing), some rope, grey elven cloaks with brooches and some boats too. To each of them, she gave a present. Aragorn: a sheath for his sword and the Elfstone of the house of Elendil. Boromir: a belt of gold. Merry and Pippin: belts of silver. Legolas: a bow. Sam: Blessed earth from Galadriel's orchard. Gimli: a lock of Galadriel's hair. Frodo: a phial with the light of Earendil's star.

At the end of the first book, the fellowship is separated - Frodo and Sam go on alone to Mordor (the evil place where Sauron dwells). Pippin and Merry have been captured by Saruman's orcs and Boromir dies trying to save them. (Saruman is a wizard that has been corrupted by evil and started breeding his own orcs..) Legolas, Aragorn and Gimli go to save them. However, Sauron's orcs and Saruman's orcs have this big fight with the riders of Rohan where all of them are killed. During this battle, our two little hobbit friends (Pippin and Merry) escape into Fangorn forest, where they meet Treebeard the Ent. They drink his special drink and grow taller ^_^. Legolas and co. follow the hobbits' tracks to Fangorn forest where they find Gandalf the White - he didn't die!! They then go on to the Golden Hall of Rohan where they meet Theoden. His advisor is the evil Grima (Wormtongue) who works for Saruman. Gandalf helps their king, Theoden become himself so he is longer under Saruman's control. The Riders of Rohan + Aragorn and co. go to Helm's Deep to fight Saruman's orcs. Meanwhile, Merry and Pippin along with the Ents form and alliance and defeat Saruman - they wash out the dirty evil crap from Orthanc (Saruman's tower). The remaining members of the fellowship is re-united again. They discover that Saruman has been using a palantir to contact Sauron all the time. 

Meanwhile, Frodo and Sam are still trying to find their way to Mordor. They meet Gollum on the way who was trying to get the ring from Frodo. He leads the way to Mordor, through the Dead Marshes etc. Sam doesn't trust poor Gollum/Smeagol who has sworn by the ring to serve Frodo as his master. (Gollum is soooo cute in the movie!! Poor thing.. being tormented by Sam!! I think Sam might've been jealous that Frodo was paying attention to someone else! 0_o but letz not mention slash here..) Gollum leads them to the Black Gate, but itz guarded by all these orcs, so they have to find another way in. As Gollum leads them to the other entrance, they meet Faramir (brother of Boromir). Afterwards, they continue on to Cirith Ungol and Smeagol leads them to Shelob's Lair. She is this big gigantic spider thing - Gollum has this plan to let Shelob eat Frodo and Sam so he can just take the ring for himself. However, this plan fails and Frodo is captured by the orcs!! Sam being the hero, manages to kill Shelob to save him (and the orcs think he's a great Elven warrior.. lol!!). Here in the darkness, they use the phial that Galadriel gave them. 

Back with our other friends - Aragorn, Legolas, Gimli and our other hobbit pals - they have gone to Minas Tirith (Gondor) to see Denethor (Steward of Gondor, Boromir and Faramir's father). Let's just cut the crap and move on. Everybody joins forces (Riders of Rohan, Gondor and these elves) to fight the orcs from Mordor and our old enemies - the Ringwraiths. Aragorn comes at the last minute with his Dunedain and saves the day. Eowyn and Merry, together manage to kill the Witch King (leader of Ringwraiths) but they are injured badly. This battle was meant to distract Sauron while Frodo and Sam sneaked in to destroy the Ring. Of course, they succeed and they are barely alive when some eagles are sent to retrieve them. Aragorn becomes King of Gondor and Eomer becomes the Lord of the Mark (i.e. he takes Theoden's place). Aragorn marries Arwen, who gives up her immortal elf life to be with him. Everyone is happy but the hobbits soon have to leave for home - the Shire.

When the hobbits go back home, they find out that the Shire has been taken over by these evil people. Of course, after having been through so much - our four hobbit friends aren't afraid. They find out that Saruman is actually behind all this and they succeed in driving him away. Sam uses the earth that Galadriel gave him and makes the place nice again. Meanwhile, the elves are leaving Middle Earth for the Grey Havens - they are sailing to Valinor, the Undying Lands. (For more info: Read the Silmarillion)

Now I know that summary was far from brief... But the books are long okay? To put it in a sentence: Frodo goes on a quest to destroy the One Ring. I hope that my summary was actually coherent and you understood my blabberings... Click on the links for more info!!

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