The Fellowship of the Ring

J.R.R. Tolkien

Sep 2021 · RB Media · Narrated by Andy Serkis

About this audiobook

An unlikely hero. A perilous quest. The greatest adventure ever told.

In a quiet village in the Shire, young Frodo is about to receive a gift that will change his life forever.

Thought lost centuries ago, it is the One Ring, an object of terrifying power once used by the Dark Lord to enslave Middle-earth. Now darkness is rising, and Frodo must travel deep into the Dark Lord’s realm, to the one place the Ring can be destroyed: Mount Doom.

The journey will test Frodo’s courage, his friendships and his heart. Because the Ring corrupts all who bear it—can Frodo destroy it, or will it destroy him?

'The English-speaking world is divided into those who have read The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit and those who are going to read them.'—Sunday Times

This brand-new unabridged recording is narrated by the acclaimed actor, director and author, Andy Serkis.

Ratings and reviews

iIt's a wonderful reading by Andy Serkis. The Lord of The Rings books are often full of world building detail which can become cumbersome to light readers but Andy manages to captivate me throughout every small detail and dialogue with his pristine voice acting skills. The generous amount of songs in the book are sang respectfully by Serkis without feeling out of place with the rest of his reading. absolutely worth your time if you want to start the journey to middle earth (or do it again!)

this story has been one of cherished favour to me for as long as I can remember. I had only ever seen the films throughout my childhood, but Andy Serkis captures it so well. it's like listening to my dad reading the Hobbit to me every night again. if you want to read the most inspirational and incredibly composed epic of our time, then you have to give this a read/listen. it'll leave you changed forever.

Andy Serkis is an amazing narrator. Haven't read LOTR in probably 20 years and the audio book is definitely the way to go... I am having a lovely time falling in love with this series all over again. LOTR is so much cozier than I remember, especially when you are still safe in the Shire. I'm loving all the songs.

About the author

A writer of fantasies, Tolkien, a professor of language and literature at Oxford University, was always intrigued by early English and the imaginative use of language. In his greatest story, the trilogy The Lord of the Rings (1954--56), Tolkien invented a language with vocabulary, grammar, syntax, even poetry of its own. Though readers have created various possible allegorical interpretations, Tolkien has said: "It is not about anything but itself. (Certainly it has no allegorical intentions, general, particular or topical, moral, religious or political.)" In The Adventures of Tom Bombadil (1962), Tolkien tells the story of the "master of wood, water, and hill," a jolly teller of tales and singer of songs, one of the multitude of characters in his romance, saga, epic, or fairy tales about his country of the Hobbits. Tolkien was also a formidable medieval scholar, as evidenced by his work, Beowulf: The Monster and the Critics (1936) and his edition of Anciene Wisse: English Text of the Anciene Riwle. Among his works published posthumously, are The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún and The Fall of Arthur, which was edited by his son, Christopher. In 2013, his title, The Hobbit (Movie Tie-In) made The New York Times Best Seller List.