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Don Quifrodo is an old, gentleman hobbit who has read one too many romances (in the old literary sense) about perilous quests and ultimate struggles between good and evil. One day he comes across a golden ring (his own, of course) and imagines it to be a repository of great evil power. Misunderstanding the warnings of the kindly Padre Gandolfo (whom he takes for a wizard), he persuades his trusty though dubious servant-hobbit [whose name escapes me] to set off to destroy it.
Along the way Don Quifrodo manages to rope a couple of his juvenile nephews (or cousins) into his deluded scheme and falls in with various prosaic individuals (tradesmen, merchants, village lasses, etc.) whom he believes to be elves, dwarves, kings, Elvish queens, and such. One night early in the story he battles it out atop a lone hill with a circle of ancient standing stones that the thinks are evil undead kings of men, managing to cut his shoulder quite badly on the sharp edge of one.