The Fellowship of the Ring

J.R.R. Tolkien

Sep 2012 · Lord of the Rings Book 1 · Recorded Books · Narrated by Rob Inglis

About this audiobook

An unlikely hero. A perilous quest. The greatest adventure ever told.

In a quiet village in the Shire, young Frodo is about to receive a gift that will change his life forever.

Thought lost centuries ago, it is the One Ring, an object of terrifying power once used by the Dark Lord to enslave Middle-earth. Now darkness is rising, and Frodo must travel deep into the Dark Lord’s realm, to the one place the Ring can be destroyed: Mount Doom.

The journey will test Frodo’s courage, his friendships and his heart. Because the Ring corrupts all who bear it—can Frodo destroy it, or will it destroy him?

'The English-speaking world is divided into those who have read The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit and those who are going to read them.'—Sunday Times

Ratings and reviews

To me, this is a masterpiece. Truly. I first read this tale in 1978, and of all my re-readings of it since i have never experienced it like this. The narrator is absolutely *brilliant*!!! Each character has their own voice, and the story really comes to life in this telling. Then there are the songs. Oh the songs! In my mind the songs had always sounded like poems, not having the skill to set the words to a tune in my mind. No longer! Now i can listen to them as music, and it adds new layers of wonder to the whole experience. I've talked enough. Just buy it. It's great. An easy 5 stars.

Wonderful, imaginative and descriptive story. Imagine creating an entire world, language and critters. J R Tolkien gave us an adventure - not to be confused with a novel or murder mystery. One may sense Tolkien loved his craft. A desert for the mind and heart. The narrator did a gr8 job. I am not rating the narration. Highly recommended for a busy mind to slow down and relax.

I have always loved the LoTR series in the movie form including The Hobbit old and new. I never had a chance to read the series as an adult and I'm glad I have started to and cannot wait to get to the next book. You know how people ask what famous dead person you'd like to meet? Well mine has definitely changed

About the author

A writer of fantasies, Tolkien, a professor of language and literature at Oxford University, was always intrigued by early English and the imaginative use of language. In his greatest story, the trilogy The Lord of the Rings (1954--56), Tolkien invented a language with vocabulary, grammar, syntax, even poetry of its own. Though readers have created various possible allegorical interpretations, Tolkien has said: "It is not about anything but itself. (Certainly it has no allegorical intentions, general, particular or topical, moral, religious or political.)" In The Adventures of Tom Bombadil (1962), Tolkien tells the story of the "master of wood, water, and hill," a jolly teller of tales and singer of songs, one of the multitude of characters in his romance, saga, epic, or fairy tales about his country of the Hobbits. Tolkien was also a formidable medieval scholar, as evidenced by his work, Beowulf: The Monster and the Critics (1936) and his edition of Anciene Wisse: English Text of the Anciene Riwle. Among his works published posthumously, are The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún and The Fall of Arthur, which was edited by his son, Christopher. In 2013, his title, The Hobbit (Movie Tie-In) made The New York Times Best Seller List.