One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to
bring them all and in the darkness bind them In ancient times
the Rings of Power were crafted by the Elven-smiths, and Sauron,
The Dark Lord, forged the One Ring, filling it with his own
power so that he could rule all others. But the One Ring was
taken from him, and though he sought it throughout Middle-earth,
it remained lost to him. After many ages, it fell by chance into
the hands of the hobbit Bilbo Baggins. From his fastness in the
Dark Tower of Mordor, Sauron's power spread far and wide. He
gathered all the Great Rings to him, but always he searched far
and wide for the One Ring that would complete his dominion. On
Bilbo's eleventy-first birthday, he disapeared, bequeathing to
his young cousin, Frodo, the Ruling Ring and a perilous quest:
to journey across Middle-earth, deep into the shadow of the Dark
Lord, and destroy the Ring by casting it into the Cracks of
Doom. THE LORD OF THE RINGS tells of the great quest undertaken
by Frodo and the