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Book 1. Chapter 1. A Long-expected Party
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Chapter 2. The Shadow of the Past
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Chapter 3. Three is Company
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Chapter 4 A Short Cut to Mushrooms
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Chapter 5. A Conspiracy Unmasked
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Chapter 6. The Old Forest
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Chapter 7. In the House of Tom Bombadil
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Chapter 8. Fog on the Barrow-downs
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Chapter 9. At the Sign of The Prancing Pony
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Chapter 10. Strider
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Chapter 11. A Knife in the Dark
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Chapter 12. Flight to the Ford
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Book 2. Chapter 1. Many Meetings
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Chapter 2. The Council of Elrond
- Mordor's armies continue to defeat Gondor.
- Boromir, son of the Gondor's leader, suggests that the council use the Sauron's Ring against him.
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Chapter 3. The Ring Goes South
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Chapter 4. Journey in the Dark
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Chapter 5. The Bridge of Khazad-dum
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Chapter 6. Lothlorien
-Boromir is reluctant to enter the forest of Lothlorien.
-He believes the party will come to harm there.
-Aragorn says that only those who bring evil will come to harm. ['Well, have a care!' said Boromir. "I do not feel too sure of this Elvish Lady and her purposes." ](http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=hesOeiv_l7I) "Speak no evil of the Lady Galadriel!" said Aragorn sternly. "You know not what you say. There is in her and in this land no evil, unless a man bring it hither himself. Then let him beware!" -
Chapter 7. The Mirror of Galadriel
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Chapter 8. Farewell to Lorien
Boromir is increasingly frustrated that the party does not decide to go to Gondor to seek help.
He is also showing the Ring's increasing power over him. 'Frodo caught something new and strange in Boromir's glance, and he looked hard at him. Plainly Boromir's thought was different from his final words. It would be folly to throw away: what? The Ring of Power? He had said something like this at the Council, but then he had accepted the correction of Elrond.' -
Chapter 9. The Great River
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Chapter 10. The Breaking of the Fellowship
-Boromir gives in and tries to take the Ring from Frodo.
-Frodo escapes.
-Upon returning to camp, Boromir relays that Frodo disappeared but fails to mention that he tried to take the Ring. "We shall all be scattered and lost," groaned Aragorn. "Boromir! I do not know what part you have played in this mischief, but help now! Go after those two young hobbits, and guard them at the least, even if you cannot find Frodo..." -
Book 3. The Departure of Boromir
-Boromir takes his new charge seriously and dies defending Merry and Pippin thus earning his redemption. "Aragorn knelt beside him. Boromir opened his eyes and strove to speak. At last slow words came. 'I tried to take the Ring from Frodo,' he said. 'I am sorry. I have paid.'
