Tolkien wrote the lord of the rings over a period of 20 years. His first book about middle earth was called The Hobbit. The Hobbit laid the foundations to the epic adventures in the Lord of the Rings. This book was so huge that Tolkien made three books for the whole story. The first instalment is called the Fellowship of the ring, the second two towers and the third return of the king.
The Fellowship of the ring expands the story of the hobbits and of middle earth which was written
about in great detail in The Hobbit. The main character is Bilbo Baggins nephew Frodo Baggins. Bilbo Baggins is the central character in The Hobbit. The plot of the story is the epic adventure to destroy the ring that Bilbo had found in The Hobbit which in The Lord of the rings had been passed down to Frodo.
At the end of The Hobbits story Gandalf the wizard who had guided Bilbo through his adventure new little about the ring. By the beginning of the Fellowship of the Ring Gandalf has ...