The original American full dramatization as broadcast on National Public Radio. 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.