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The Lord of the Rings is a classic fantasy series by J.R.R. Tolkien. It and various related works, e.g. The Hobbit and The Silmarillion, are considered the most influential works of modern fantasy and have created many tropes and conventions typical for the modern fantasy genre. In the wake of the Movies, its fandom experienced a fanfic explosion and quickly became a Suvian cesspool.

The novel was first published by the George Allen & Unwin Ltd. publishing service, in three-volume form to make it easier on readers: The Fellowship of the Ring (29 July 1954), The Two Towers (11 November 1954), and The Return of the King (20 October 1955). In fact there were actually six books, two in each of our three volumes. Their original names were planned by Tolkien, but unused until the boxed-set Millennium Edition, printed in 1999.

The Lord of the Rings takes place after The Hobbit, the first of the stories set in the land of Middle-earth.

In Canon[]

The Story[]

The Lord of the Rings follows the adventures of a Hobbit named Frodo Baggins and his eight companions. Their quest is to help defeat the rising Dark Lord, Sauron, by destroying the One Ring. This is the same 'magic ring' that Bilbo Baggins acquired during his own adventure with Thorin Oakenshield and his company of Dwarves.

After Bilbo bequeaths the Ring to Frodo, the wizard Gandalf the Grey begins to have misgivings about it and discovers that it is, in fact, the 'Master Ring' created by Sauron to dominate the other Rings of Power and bring its wielders under his influence. The Ring had been lost since Sauron was defeated by the Last Alliance of Men and Elves. Now, Sauron has recovered from that defeat and is beginning to build power again in the land of Mordor, bringing war to the neighboring Mannish kingdom of Gondor. If Sauron were to get the Ring back, his power would increase exponentially, virtually ensuring his conquest of all Middle-earth.

The only way to destroy the Ring is to throw it into the active volcano where Sauron forged it, in the heart of Mordor. Since Sauron would expect anyone who had the Ring to use it and attempt to confront him directly, the Council of Elrond determines that the best hope is for a small company to journey to Mordor in secret. When the Council argue about who should carry the Ring, Frodo—who delivered it to Elrond's home of Rivendell on the advice of Gandalf—is moved to stand and volunteer himself. The other eight members of the Fellowship of the Ring are chosen to help him, including members of each of the Free Peoples of Middle-earth, Gandalf the Grey, and the three Hobbits who accompanied Frodo from his home in the Shire, following Gandalf's intuition that their loyal friendship will be just as valuable on the journey as any physical strength or ability.

The Characters[]

Main canon characters (and most known lust objects) include:

The Fellowship
Important and recognized characters

Geography[]

Middle-earth is a large landmass of the world known as Arda. During the Third Age, when The Lord of the Rings takes place, the Westlands of Middle-earth are populated mostly by the 'Free Peoples': Men, Elves, Dwarves, and (unbeknownst to many) Hobbits. Westron, also known as the Common Tongue, is spoken all across the land, though Elves and Dwarves also have their own languages.

The largest kingdoms of 'civilised' Men are Gondor and Rohan. The two kingdoms are separated north-south by the White Mountains, with Gondor being to the south. There are other Mannish kingdoms east and south of Mordor, Khand and Harad respectively, but these are either willingly or unwillingly allied with Sauron, and have other reasons for being unfriendly to the Men of Gondor.

Elven settlements in the Third Age are few and far between, but include:

Dwarven settlements exist in several mountain ranges around the edges of Middle-earth as well as Erebor, the Lonely Mountain, which has a symbiotic relationship with the nearby Mannish city of Dale. The realm of Moria in the Misty Mountains, once famous for being the only source of mithril, is abandoned due to the presence of a Balrog.

Hobbits live almost exclusively in the Shire, with the sole exception being the nearby town of Bree and its three sister-towns, which have a population of both Hobbits and Men. In ages past, Hobbit forebears lived along the banks of the Great River, Anduin, to the east of the Misty Mountains, but they long since migrated over the mountains to the Shire.

Other Canon Sources[]

Besides The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit, there are other books with facts about the world Tolkien created for these characters. They are:

After his death, Tolkien's third son Christopher Tolkien published other works based on Middle-earth and its history:

  • The Book of Lost Tales, Part One
  • The Book of Lost Tales, Part Two
  • The Lays of Beleriand
  • The Shaping of Middle-earth
  • The Lost Road and Other Writings
  • The Return of the Shadow
  • The Treason of Isengard
  • The War of the Ring
  • Sauron Defeated
  • Morgoth's Ring
  • The War of the Jewels
  • The Peoples of Middle-earth
  • The Children of Húrin

In the history of Middle-earth, many of the objects fought over were shiny.

In Badfic[]

See main article Tolkien Fandom on how LotR is treated in badfic.

The Lord of the Rings and the PPC[]

LotR minis, the first minis ever, are mini-Balrogs. They are trained by Miss Cam at the Official Fanfiction University of Middle-earth. They may be adopted by agents at the Mini-Balrog Adoptions Agency, run now by Cassie Cameron-Young.

Agents Native to Middle-earth[]

Some PPC agents are native to Middle-earth. This often means they were created as a character for a LotR fanfic, but their author at some point decided they were better used as an agent protecting the canon than as a character possibly disrupting it. Many of these agents are Elves, often Noldorin.

Elves[]

Humans[]

Others[]

  • Alice (meara)
  • Jane Doe (dwarf)
  • Jareth (orc)
  • Justin Agent (dwarf)
  • Moira Magpie (half Istar, quarter elf, quarter human)
  • Ranger (half-elf; unclear whether he lives as an Elf or a Man)
  • The DIS employed an orc at some point, but he was never named and his fate is currently unknown. It is very likely that he either left the DIS when the SO demanded their surrender, or was killed.

Note: Agents Rosie Cotton Bomull and Maralys Deeppockets are not natives of LotR.

Items, Substances, etc. Native to Middle-earth[]

These items may be canonical or fandom-based.

Missions in this Continuum[]

All reports are listed alphabetically by agent name, in the case of agents with multiple missions, or by mission name.

Agents Specialised in this Continuum[]

Agents are considered specialised in a continuum when they have handled at least three missions in the canon. Most of these agents are also active/specialised in other continua. It is often not the agents who decide where their specialty lies, but the Flowers that keep assigning missions to them.

Agents Not Yet Specialised in this Continuum[]

Agents with fewer than three missions in this continuum are not specialised, yet. They probably soon will be.

Crossovers[]

With Harry Potter[]

With Other Continua[]

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