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The Fellowship of the Ring
''The Fellowship of the Ring'' is the first of three volumes of the epic novel ''The Lord of the Rings'' by the English author J. R. R. Tolkien. It is followed by ''The Two Towers'' and ''The Return of the King''. It takes place in the fictional universe of Middle-earth. It was originally published on July 29, 1954 in the United Kingdom. The volume consists of a prologue titled "Concerning Hobbits, and other matters" followed by Book I and Book II.
==Title and publication==
Tolkien conceived of ''The Lord of the Rings'' as a multiple volume with six sections he called "books" along with extensive appendices. The original publisher made the decision to split the work into three parts. It was also the publisher's decision to place the fifth and sixth books and the appendices into one volume under the title ''The Return of the King'', in reference to Aragorn's assumption of the throne of Gondor. Tolkien indicated he would have preferred ''The War of the Ring'' as a title, as it gave away less of the story.
Before the decision to publish ''The Lord of the Rings'' in three volumes was made, Tolkien had hoped to publish the novel in one volume, possibly also combined with ''The Silmarillion''.〔The negotiations between Tolkien and Allen & Unwin over the publication of ''The Lord of the Rings'' and the possibility of including ''The Silmarillion'' (which was still incomplete) are covered passim in the entries for 1950 through 1952 in the Chronology of ''The J.R.R. Tolkien Companion and Guide'' by Scull and Hammond (p. 355–393). Several of Tolkien's letters in ''The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien'', edited by Humphrey Carpenter, touch on this matter, notably Letters 123, 124 (in which Tolkien explicitly desires to have the works published together), 125, 126, 131, and 133.〕 However, he had proposed titles for the individual six sections. Of the two books that comprise what became ''The Fellowship of the Ring'' the first was to be called ''The First Journey'' or ''The Ring Sets Out''. The name of the second was ''The Journey of the Nine Companions'' or ''The Ring Goes South''. The titles ''The Ring Sets Out'' and ''The Ring Goes South'' were used in the ''Millennium edition''.
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