"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" Sauron, the Dark Lord, has gathered to him the Rings of Power - the means by which he will be able to rule the world. All he lacks in his plan for dominion is the Ruling Ring, which has fallen into the hands of the hobbit Bilbo Baggins. In a sleepy village in the Shire, young Frodo Baggins finds himself faced with an innense task, as the ring is entrusted to his care. He must leave his home and make a perilous journey across the realms of Middle - earth to the Crack of Doom, deep inside the territories of the Dark Lord. There he must destroy the Ring forever and foil the Dark Lord in his evil purpose. "A strory magnificently told, with every kind of colour and movement and greatness"