In the second volume of the Middle-earth trilogy, the Fellowship has scattered. Some are bracing hopelessly for war against the evil Sauron, while others deal directly with his treachery. Only Frodo and Sam are left to take the accursed Ring of Power to be destroyed in Modor, the seat of Sauron’s Kingdom. Not knowing the way themselves, they must depend on Gollum, the deceiful, lust-filled slave to the corruption of the Ring.