In the book The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring by J. Tolkien, the main character is a hobbit named Frodo Baggins who was given a ring by his cousin Bilbo Baggins. The other main characters were the members of the Fellowship of the Ring: Gandalf the Grey, the hobbits Sam, Merry, and Pippin; Gimli the Dwarf; Legolas the Elf; Boromir of Gondor; and a tall, mysterious stranger who called himself Strider. The story is set in Middle-Earth. Middle-Earth is made up of Gondor, Rohan, Mordor and the Shire. One of the characters, Gimli the Dwarf, reminds me of my old friend in Oregon who likes to compete with me just like Gimli competes with Legolas. .
The story begins when Bilbo Baggins celebrated his eleventy-first birthday afterwhich he presented his younger cousin Frodo with a ring. This ring, which turns out to be the One Ring, forged by Sauron, the dark Lord, who filled it with his own power so that he could rule over all the other rings of power crafted by the Elven-smiths. But Sauron lost the One Ring and even if he searched far and wide for it, it remained lost to him. Until by chance it fell into the hands of the hobbit Bilbo Baggins, and he kept it hidden for many years. Soon after, Bilbo disappeared, leaving Frodo with the burden of destroying the One Ring. This meant that Frodo would have to embark on a perilous journey across Middle-Earth, deep into Mordor, and casting the ring right there by the fires unto which it was forged.
Main events in the story revolved around how the ring tried to bring about the character's inner thirst for power. Due to the power in which Bilbo feels that the ring had given him, he doesn't want to part with it. By no means does Bilbo want to use the power in an evil manner to dominate all. It is just the thought of power itself that causes this greed to overcome him. Although Bilbo in general is a good character, the power of the ring corrupts his ways, exposing his thirst for power.
