Four years had passed since the Battle of the Ark, the half of the UNSC (United Nations Space Command) frigate Forward Unto Dawn containing the Master Chief Petty Officer John 117, a SPARTAN II super soldier, and his AI (artificial intelligence) partner Cortana looking around. When the half of the frigate approached Middle-Earth, Cortana woke the Chief up. He took her and used an escape pod when the half of the ship crash landed into Middle-Earth. At the time the four Hobbits, Frodo, Sam, Merry, and Pippin, set out to Rivendell; nine Ringwraiths also known as the Nazguls began hunting the four Hobbits for the Ring that Frodo carried. After the Master Chief fought one of the Nazgul with his bare hands bought time for the Hobbits to escape to Bree, a border town of the Shire which was the home of the Hobbits; the Spartan returned to the crashed vessel to gather weapons and ammo he could use, and then he pursued the Hobbits. After he fought five Nazguls in Weathertop, he befriended the Hobbits, Aragorn a human Dunedain who was the heir to the throne of Gondor, and Lady Arwen an elf who was the daughter of Lord Elrond of Rivendell. Arwen took the injured Frodo on a horse to Rivendell and casted a spell causing a flood killing the Nazgul's horses, however the Ringwraiths survived then gave up the hunt. After the Master Chief and his group reached Rivendell, the Spartan found out about the prophecy that spoke of him in a stone tablet discovered by elves in Mirkwood and realized that it was fate that brought him to Middle-Earth. From Gandalf the Grey Wizard and Elrond, the Master Chief learned about the Dark Lord Sauron and the Ring. Therefore the Spartan got involved with the war against the armies of the two towers since the betrayal of Saruman the White Wizard. Saruman began building an army of Uruk-hai by crossbreeding orcs with goblin-men. After the Master Chief attended the meeting of Elrond's council, the Fellowship of the Ring was formed when Frodo spoke up in determination to take the quest of bringing the Ring to Mount Doom where it was forged in Mordor. The Fellowship made up of Frodo, Sam, Merry, Pippin, Aragorn, Gandalf, Master Chief, Cortana, Legolas, Gimli, and Boromir. The 11 heroes set out on a journey heading south. In Moria, Gandalf presumably sacrificed himself to slay the Balrog, a powerful demon. After staying in Lorien, the Fellowship was disintegrated when ambushed by the Uruk-hai hunting party led by Lurtz deployed by Saruman to capture the Hobbits. Boromir was mortally wounded by Lurtz who was slain by the Master Chief.