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Brown still rides, with the seeming invincibility of Mordor, atop the soccer world; but last weekend's games singled out Harvard as the Ivies' Frodo Baggins, possessing the only chance of halting the evil Brownies' march to their third straight Ivy title...

Author: By Robert P. Marshall jr., | Title: Crimson Booters Pursue League-Leading Bruins | 10/20/1966 | See Source »

...Rings tells how Frodo becomes heir to a magic ring that would, in the hands of Sauron the Dark Lord, give him domination over Middle-earth. A clever old wizard called Gandalf the Grey persuades Frodo to destroy the ring by carrying it to Sauron's domain of Mordor and then dropping it into the impenetrable Cracks of Doom. On his long journey, Frodo is aided by a variety of elves and dwarves, set upon by horrid, yellow-toothed Orcs, nine Ringwraiths riding dark horses, a giant spider, and other henchmen of Sauron. His quest is over when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Students: The Hobbit Habit | 7/15/1966 | See Source »

...Frodo is a happy hobbit who whiles away his "tweens"-the "irresponsible twenties between childhood and coming of age at thirty-three." Only at 50 is Frodo driven onto the road to trouble and adventure, by a touch of wanderlust and by the minions of the tyrannical Lord of Mordor, who are scouring hobbitland for the ring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Weirdies | 11/22/1954 | See Source »

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