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110 results for “The One Ring”
Characters · 65
CharacterSauron
A Maia and former lieutenant of Morgoth, forger of the One Ring and the central antagonist of The Lord of the Rings.
CharacterThe Witch-king of Angmar
The chief of the Nazgûl, a Ringwraith and Sauron’s most feared captain, slain by Éowyn and Merry.
CharacterSmaug
The great dragon who took the Lonely Mountain, hoarded its treasure, and was slain by Bard the Bowman.
CharacterGollum
A Stoor-hobbit ruined by the One Ring, who guides Frodo and Sam toward Mordor and finally destroys the Ring by accident.
CharacterMorgoth
The first Dark Lord, a fallen Vala whose discord marred Arda and whose wars shaped the First Age.
CharacterGandalf
A Wizard of the Istari, keeper of the Elven-ring Narya, and the chief architect of the resistance to Sauron.
CharacterBilbo Baggins
A respectable Shire hobbit who is swept into the quest of Erebor and becomes the first hobbit to bear the One Ring.
CharacterAragorn
The heir of Isildur, raised in Rivendell in secret, who becomes King Elessar and reunites the kingdoms of Gondor and Arnor.
CharacterAncalagon the Black
The greatest of Morgoth’s winged dragons, destroyed by Eärendil in the War of Wrath.
CharacterSamwise Gamgee
Frodo’s loyal gardener and companion, who carried him — and, briefly, the Ring — to the end of the quest.
CharacterGaladriel
An Elven-queen of the Noldor, wielder of Nenya, and one of the wisest and most powerful figures remaining in Middle-earth.
CharacterBoromir
The proud eldest son of Denethor who joins the Fellowship, tries to take the Ring, and redeems himself dying to defend Merry and Pippin.
CharacterThorin Oakenshield
The proud leader of the Company in The Hobbit, who reclaimed Erebor from Smaug and fell at the Battle of Five Armies.
CharacterSaruman
The chief of the Wizards, whose study of Sauron’s power corrupted him into a would-be rival lord.
CharacterRadagast
A Wizard devoted to beasts and birds, who served as a watcher of the wilds rather than a power in councils.
Éowyn
Théoden’s niece, who defied the prohibition on women going to war and slew the Witch-king at the Pelennor.
Elendil
Survivor of Númenor and first High King of the Dúnedain in Middle-earth, who founded Gondor and Arnor.
CharacterAzog
The Orc who slew Thrór and was killed by Dáin at the Battle of Azanulbizar; greatly expanded in the films.
CharacterFrodo Baggins
The hobbit of the Shire who carried the One Ring across Middle-earth to Mount Doom and destroyed it.
Isildur
King of Gondor and Arnor who cut the One Ring from Sauron’s hand, then kept it and was slain by Orcs.
CharacterThráin II
Father of Thorin Oakenshield, captured and tormented by Sauron, from whom Sauron took a Dwarf-ring.
CharacterElrond
Lord of Rivendell, keeper of the Elven-ring Vilya, loremaster and healer, and foster-father of Aragorn.
CharacterThranduil
King of the Woodland Realm and father of Legolas, who imprisoned Thorin’s company and later fought at Five Armies.
CharacterArondir
A Silvan Elf created for the television series The Rings of Power.
CharacterAlatar
One of the two Blue Wizards who journeyed into the East and of whose fates little is known.
CharacterPallando
One of the two Blue Wizards, companion of Alatar in the East.
CharacterFaramir
Denethor’s younger son, a wise and gentle captain who resists the Ring’s temptation and befriends Frodo.
CharacterMeriadoc Brandybuck
A clever Brandybuck who rode to war with Rohan and helped slay the Witch-king at the Battle of the Pelennor Fields.
CharacterPeregrin Took
The youngest hobbit of the Fellowship, who became a knight and guard of Gondor and saved Faramir from Denethor’s pyre.
CharacterGimli
The Dwarf of the Fellowship, whose friendship with Legolas becomes a symbol of reconciliation between their peoples.
CharacterThrór
Grandfather of Thorin and King under the Mountain before Smaug, later slain by the Orc Azog.
CharacterDáin Ironfoot
Dwarven lord who came to the aid of Thorin at the Battle of Five Armies and became King under the Mountain.
CharacterDurin
The eldest of the Seven Fathers of the Dwarves and founder of the line of Durin’s Folk.
CharacterGlóin
A Dwarf of Thorin’s company and father of Gimli, later a member of the Council of Elrond.
CharacterDwalin
A fierce Dwarf warrior and the first of Thorin’s companions to arrive at Bag End.
CharacterKíli
A young Dwarf of Thorin’s company, skilled with a bow, who fell defending Thorin at the Battle of Five Armies.
CharacterFíli
Kíli’s elder brother and heir to Thorin, who died with him at the Battle of Five Armies.
CharacterBifur
A Dwarf of Thorin’s company who, in the films, speaks only in an unfamiliar tongue after a head-wound.
CharacterArwen Undómiel
Daughter of Elrond who chose mortality to wed Aragorn, uniting the lines of Lúthien and Beren.
CharacterLegolas Greenleaf
Son of Thranduil and the Elven archer of the Fellowship, whose friendship with Gimli breaks an old estrangement.
CharacterHaldir
An Elf of Lothlórien who guides the Fellowship and later dies defending Helm’s Deep in the film adaptation.
CharacterGlorfindel
A mighty Elf-lord of Rivendell and, in the First Age, a hero who fell fighting a Balrog.
CharacterTauriel
A captain of the Woodland Realm’s guard created for Peter Jackson’s film trilogy.
CharacterÉomer
Théoden’s nephew, a marshal of Rohan who becomes king after the war.
CharacterThéoden
King of Rohan, aged prematurely by Gríma’s counsel, later restored and killed at the Pelennor Fields.
CharacterDenethor II
The proud Steward of Gondor, worn down by the palantír and despair, who perishes in madness.
Arathorn II
Chieftain of the Dúnedain and father of Aragorn, killed by Orcs while Aragorn was an infant.
Gilraen
Mother of Aragorn, who took him to Rivendell for safety and later died in grief.
CharacterBolg
Son of Azog, who led the Orc host at the Battle of Five Armies.
CharacterGrishnákh
A cunning Orc captain from Mordor who joined the pursuit of the hobbits.
CharacterMauhúr
An Uruk-hai captain of the band Saruman sent to accompany his scouts.
CharacterGorbag
Captain of the Uruks of Minas Morgul who quarrelled with Shagrat over Frodo’s belongings.
CharacterShagrat
Captain of the Tower of Cirith Ungol, left holding Frodo after Shelob’s attack.
CharacterGlaurung
The first of the great dragons and the “Father of Dragons”, who fought in the Wars of Beleriand.
CharacterScatha
A long-worm dragon of the Grey Mountains slain by Fram of the Éothéod.
CharacterChrysophylax Dives
The dragon of Tolkien’s comic tale “Farmer Giles of Ham”.
CharacterBalin
A wise and kindly Dwarf of Thorin’s company who later led a doomed attempt to recolonise Moria.
CharacterBombur
A jovial, very heavy Dwarf of Thorin’s company, noted for comic mishaps.
CharacterNori
A Dwarf of Thorin’s company known for his resourcefulness and distinctive appearance.
CharacterDori
A strong and dependable Dwarf of Thorin’s company, often seen carrying Bilbo.
CharacterÓin
A Dwarf of Thorin’s company remembered for his skill at fire-making and, in later lore, healing.
CharacterCeleborn
Lord of Lothlórien, husband of Galadriel, and a Sindarin prince of Doriath.
CharacterGríma Wormtongue
Théoden’s treacherous counsellor, secretly in Saruman’s service.
CharacterLurtz
An Uruk-hai captain created for Peter Jackson’s films, who kills Boromir.
CharacterUglúk
Leader of Saruman's Uruk-hai band that captured Merry and Pippin.
Locations · 32
LocationErebor
The great Dwarven kingdom under the Lonely Mountain, taken by Smaug and reclaimed in the quest of Thorin.
Gondor
The great southern kingdom of the Dúnedain, long defended by its Stewards and finally restored under King Elessar.
LocationThe Paths of the Dead
The haunted pass beneath the White Mountains through which Aragorn summoned the Oathbreakers.
LocationMoria
The greatest Dwarven city, delved beneath the Misty Mountains, abandoned after the awakening of a Balrog.
LocationMordor
Sauron’s realm behind the Mountains of Shadow, ringed by the Ephel Dúath and Ered Lithui.
LocationThe Shire
The green homeland of the Hobbits in the west of Eriador, sheltered and largely overlooked by the great powers.
LocationRohan
The horse-lords’ kingdom north of the White Mountains, granted to the Éothéod for service to Gondor.
LocationMinas Tirith
The seven-tiered white city of Gondor, built into Mount Mindolluin, and the great fortress of the West.
Minas Ithil
The Gondorian sister-city of Minas Tirith, captured by Sauron and made the Witch-king’s seat.
Gondolin
The secret Elven city of Turgon in the First Age, hidden in the Encircling Mountains and destroyed by Morgoth.
The Grey Havens
The Elven harbour in the Gulf of Lune from which the Eldar sail into the West.
The Old Forest
A sinister remnant of the great woods of Eriador, home to Old Man Willow and Tom Bombadil’s country.
LocationThe Trollshaws
Wooded hills east of the Hoarwell where Bilbo’s company met the three trolls, and where Aragorn later guarded the road.
LocationThe Pelennor Fields
The fertile plain before Minas Tirith, site of the great battle that broke Sauron’s western army.
Barad-dûr
Sauron’s vast fortress in Mordor, its foundations built with the power of the One Ring.
Mount Doom
The volcanic mountain in Mordor where the One Ring was forged and, at the end, destroyed.
LocationLothlórien
The golden Elven realm of Galadriel and Celeborn, preserved outside ordinary time by the ring Nenya.
LocationMirkwood
The great forest of Rhovanion, home of the Woodland Realm and, before the war, of a growing darkness.
LocationOsgiliath
The ruined former capital of Gondor on the Anduin, contested throughout the War of the Ring.
Fangorn
The ancient forest of the Ents at the southern end of the Misty Mountains, hostile to the axes of Isengard.
Númenor
The great island kingdom of the Dúnedain in the Second Age, drowned when its kings rebelled against the Valar.
LocationRivendell
Elrond’s refuge in a hidden valley below the Misty Mountains, a haven of lore, healing and counsel.
Dol Guldur
Sauron’s dark fortress in southern Mirkwood, from which he grew again in the Third Age.
LocationHelm’s Deep
The fortress of the Hornburg in the valley behind the Deeping Wall, scene of Rohan’s greatest defensive battle.
LocationIthilien
The fair land between the Anduin and the Mountains of Shadow, contested by Gondor and Mordor.
Doriath
The Sindarin kingdom of Thingol and Melian in Beleriand, protected by the Girdle of Melian.
Weathertop
A ruined watchtower on a hill in the Weather Hills, where Frodo was wounded by the Witch-king.
LocationIsengard
Saruman’s fortress at the southern end of the Misty Mountains, ruined by the Ents in the War of the Ring.
Angmar
The Witch-king’s northern kingdom, which destroyed the successor-states of Arnor.
Bree
A village of Men and Hobbits at the crossing of the great roads of Eriador, home of the Prancing Pony.
LocationLake-town
A town of Men built on the Long Lake below Erebor, destroyed by Smaug and rebuilt.
LocationEdoras
The capital of Rohan, its golden hall Meduseld standing on a green hill below the White Mountains.
Artifacts · 4
ArtifactThe One Ring
Sauron's master-ring, forged in secret to dominate the other Rings of Power and their bearers. Its passage through Middle-earth drives the central drama of The Lord of the Rings.
ArtifactThe Palantiri
Seven great seeing-stones made in the Elder Days, brought to Middle-earth by the Numenoreans. Powerful, difficult and easily turned to evil, they play a decisive part in the War of the Ring.
ArtifactThe Three Elven Rings
The three Rings of Power made by Celebrimbor alone, never touched by Sauron, and kept hidden while the One endured. Their preservation of all that Elves loved ended when the One was destroyed.
ArtifactThe Arkenstone
A great jewel of Erebor, prized above all treasure by the Dwarves and used by Bilbo in a desperate attempt to prevent war. Its beauty brings out the dragon-sickness in Thorin.
History · 5
The Destruction of the One Ring
In the Cracks of Doom the Ring falls into the fire with Gollum, and Sauron is unmade.
The Forging of the Rings of Power
Sauron, as Annatar, teaches the smiths of Eregion and secretly forges the One Ring.
The Disaster of the Gladden Fields
Isildur is ambushed and killed; the One Ring is lost in the Gladden River for two thousand years.
The Council of Elrond
The free peoples resolve that the One Ring must be destroyed in Mordor, and Frodo takes it.
Bilbo’s Farewell Party
Bilbo leaves the Shire and gives the One Ring to Frodo.
Themes · 2
Power and Corruption
The One Ring magnifies whatever desire already exists in its bearer, so resisting it means resisting a flattering version of oneself rather than an external enemy.
Providence and Free Will
The story repeatedly pairs deliberate choice with chance and coincidence, leaving the reader to wonder whether outcomes are guided by fate or assembled from free decisions.
Peoples · 2
The Fellowship of the Ring
The nine companions chosen at Rivendell to carry the One Ring to Mordor and destroy it: four hobbits, an Elf, a Dwarf, two Men and a Wizard.
The Shire
The quiet green land of the hobbits in Eriador, sheltered by the Dúnedain, and the unlikely starting point of the quest to destroy the One Ring.
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