content: I believe that this story is J.R.R. Tolkien's test to himself as a writer. It was to see whether or no he could start from nothing and bulid up a whole new world for his audience to look at. He created lands, peoples, geographical structures, and family histories. It is the perfect fictional world in the eye of J.R.R. Tolkien. In my opinion he succeeded, yet not only did he succeed he shocked his audience. It is a great strory of a journey of faithful friends and their fight against evil that everyone interested in fantasy fiction should read.