The Fellowship of the Ring (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
At a glance:
- Author: J. R. R. Tolkien
- First Published: 1954
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Epic
- Time of Work: Third Age in a remote legendary past
- Genres: Long fiction, Fantasy
- Subjects: Maturation or coming of age, Blizzards, Traveling or travelers, Folkloric or magical people, Magic or magicians, Supernatural, Leadership, Other worlds, Friendship, War, Good and evil, Adventure, Heroes or heroism, Dwarfs, Quest, Elves, Rings, Talisman or magical object
- Locales: Middle-earth (mythic)
Places Discussed
Shire. Homeland of the hobbits, J. R. R. Tolkien’s “little people,” whose environment and culture are provincial and innocent. The journey motif anchors the story in the Shire, which is an idealized adaptation of Tolkien’s boyhood haunts in an English Midlands village. Free of industrial pollution, the well farmed countryside is pocked with underground housing, from the luxurious homes of the gentry to mere burrows, a correlative to the hobbits’ preference for a snug way of life that demands little awareness of a larger world outside.
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