The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring Lesson Plan

Although we are well into Fellowship of the Ring at this point, how does the novel's narrative structure remind us that the novel is part of a much larger work?

At this point, we are about halfway through Fellowship of the Ring. In a typical novel's structure, all of the major exposition should have taken place by now. However, this novel is part of a much larger work (The Lord of the Rings), which itself is a small but significant portion of Tolkien's extensive history of Middle-Earth.

We're reminded how much history has taken place before this novel when Chapter 9 begins with a history of the region that offers parallels to our world, partly because of Tolkien's idea...