The original American full dramatization as broadcast on National Public Radio. <p>In the ancient world of Middle-earth?a place of elves and dwarves, orcs and wizards, the darkest evil and the brightest good?a hobbit named Frodo Baggins embarks on a perilous quest: to carry the One Ring, ruler of all the Rings of Power, into the shadowy land of Mordor and destroy it in the fires where it was forged.