Originally posted by Setekh:
Speaking of which, LotR has always interested me - but who can explain the plot? 
Rah blaspheme!!!!!!
ok the plot, quicky: it begins in "the hobbit" (a book for childs, but still funny to read). basically a hobbit (small human like creature, smaller than a dwarf and thinner, but very agile, calm people, farmers and so on) finds a ring that turns him invisible. It's a detail in that book, but it's the begining of Lotr. In Lotr, gandalf, a magician, finds out that this ring is the... (harg, I need translation) the unique ring, forged by Sauron, a kind of superpowerful sorcerer, once the best general of Morgoth, ancient evil god slain ages before. Sauron built lots of rings (9 for the humans, 7 for the dwarves, 2 for the elvens) with magical powers, and gave them to the mightiests lords of each species. of course it was a trick, and he had the Unique ring, one that can lead all the other rings (everything that was done thanx to those rings would fall evil, something like that). The whole Lotr story deals with how some heroes try to hide that unique ring Sauron lost (and was found by Bilbo in "the hobbit"), and their attempt to destroy this ring (coz Sauron put a lot of his power in the ring, and makes it incredibly powerful -and really dangerous too for the one who have it, appart from Sauron of course).
Well, now, go find the whole series (Bilbo and the 3 Lotr books), and read them, that's an order!!!
