Product Description : The Fellowship Of The Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings (The Lord of the Rings, 1) The Lord of the Rings JRR Tolkiens threevolume epic is set in the imaginary world of Middleearth home to many strange beings and most notably hobbits a peaceloving little people cheerful and shy Since its original British publication in 195455 the saga has entranced readers of all ages It is at once a classic myth and a modern fairy tale Critic Michael Straight has hailed it as one of the very few works of genius in recent literature Middleearth is a world receptive to poets scholars children and all other people of good will Donald Barr has described it as a scrubbed morning world and a ringing nightmare worldespecially sunlit and shadowed by perils very fundamental of a peculiarly uncompounded darkness The story of ths world is one of high and heroic adventure Barr compared it to Beowulf CS Lewis to Orlando Furioso WH Auden to The Thirtynine Steps In fact the saga is sui generis a triumph of imagination which springs to life within its own framework and on its own terms ( it is an used product)