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Our narrative now concerns a Mister Frodo Baggins of Bag End, a bourgeois estate in H_____, The S____. What sort of man was he? We shall see shortly that he was not a man at all, but that sort of fellow of slight build and dirty feet and fingernail known in those times as a Hobbit. He had inhereted of a kindly relative a ring. This ring was worth at least 10 sous in the precious metal alone, but it was not the value of the thing that will concern us. It had a history, this pretty thing, and it began long before this Baggins walked the streets of H____.
[Insert 10 pages of backstory of the Ring, followed by 15 more of the political scenario that led to its creation, and 5 of the battle tactics employed at The Battle of Dagorlad]
Let us return--as we now must--to that small place away from such great things where this ring found itself...