The prologue explains that the work is "largely concerned with hobbits", telling of their origins in a migration from the east, their habits such as smoking " pipe-weed", and of how their homeland the Shire is organised. The body of the volume consists of Book One: The Ring Sets Out, and Book Two: The Ring Goes South. The volume contains a Prologue for readers who have not read The Hobbit, and background information to set the stage for the novel. In many other editions, the books are untitled. The titles The Ring Sets Out and The Ring Goes South were used in the Millennium edition. The name of the second was The Journey of the Nine Companions or The Ring Goes South. Of the two books that comprise what became The Fellowship of the Ring the first was to be called The First Journey or The Ring Sets Out. However, he had proposed titles for the individual six sections. īefore the decision to publish The Lord of the Rings in three volumes was made, Tolkien had hoped to publish the novel in one volume, possibly also combined with The Silmarillion. Tolkien indicated he would have preferred The War of the Ring as a title, as it gave away less of the story. It was also the publisher's decision to place the fifth and sixth books and the appendices into one volume under the title The Return of the King, about Aragorn's assumption of the throne of Gondor. The original publisher decided to split the work into three parts. Tolkien envisioned The Lord of the Rings as a single volume work divided into six sections he called "books" along with extensive appendices.
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