The Companions of the Ring were choosen, who were to aid him in his quest: to come to the Mordor, the land of Enemy himself, where alone the Ring could be destroied. In this fellowship were Aragorn and Boromir representing Men, Legolas for the Elves, Gimli for the Dwarves, Frodo with his servant Sam, and his two young kinsmen Merry and Pippin, for the Hobbits, and Gandalf the Grey. They journyed in secret far from Rivendell in the North to the South lands, as close to Mordor as possible. In Moria, old dwarven mines, Gandalf was killed and Aragorn, revelated as the hidden heir of the ancient Kings of the West, led the company on. Later, when the war was very close, it was necessary for them to decide whether they should turn east to Moria or to go with Boromir to the aid of Minas Tirith in the coming war. When it became clear that the Ring-bearer was resolved to continue his hopeless journey, Boromir attempted to seize the Ring by the force. The first part ended with the fall of Boromir to the lure of the Ring, with the escape and disappereance of Frodo and Sam, and scattering of the reminder of the Fellowship by a sudden attack of orc-soliders.
The second part, The Two Towers, recounted the deeds of of all the company after the breaking of the Fellowship. At the beginning it told about the death of Boromir, of the capture of Merry and Pippin by orc-soliders and of their pursuit by Aragorn, Legolas and Gimli. They all joined a battle against wizard Saruman, secret ally of Sauron, and met Gandalf again, returned from death, now as the White Rider.
Story than turned to Frodo and Sam. Their situation was so deaperate, that they had to accept help of Gollum, little cerature who owned Ring before Bilbo. He guided the hobbits to a secret way through mountains to Mordor. While this, the great War of the Ring had begun. This part ended when Frodo was during his passing through a secret tunnel wounded by a spider Shelob. The third and last part, The Return of the King, told of the opposing strategies of Gandalf ans Sauron, until the final catastrophe and the end of the great darkness. Fordo and Sam succeed in their quest and destroied the Ring. Aragorn became a king and married his love Arwen, Lady of Rivendell. Then they all set sail from the Shadow Harbours to a New Land, because after the detruction of the Ring, all smaller magic rings lost their power and Middle-earth was condemn to doom.
And now something about the Master writer… J.R.R. Tolkien was born in 1892 in South Africa.