At the Council of Elrond, it is decided that the ring must be destroyed. But of course, it is no ordinary item, it is the One Ring of Power forged by the evil Lord Sauron himself, in the fires of Mount Doom, and only there can it be unmade.
So the ring is sent south, in the hands of the nine members of the fellowship, who must take it all the way from Rivendell to Mordor. The task is especially entrusted to Frodo the Ring-bearer, who must wear it on a specially made elvish chain in order to
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