About this title: This 1937 fantasy is the prequel, or "prelude" to the classic epic trilogy THE LORD OF THE RINGS. Bilbo Baggins is the hobbit of the title: a short, round, and hairy-footed creature fond of small comforts and his rural home. What he doesn't like (or at least thinks he doesn't like) is adventure, but that's just what he gets when a wizard and ...
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Date Published: 1970
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"I should know; I've worn out about 6 sets of "the Hobbit / Lord of the Rings" over the years, averaging at least 2-4 reads a year since the books first appeared after being re-found in the stacks at Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, Central. Enjoy yourself and meet the Hobbits."
"The Hobbit is an incredible book filled with fantasy creatures and a wonderful adventure. In this book a hobbit by the name of Bilbo Baggins embarks on an adventure that changes his life. He starts out as a plain little hobbit who was never interested in adventure because hobbits frown upon leaving the Shire and going beyond The Water. Well the adventurous side in him comes out, oh yes he has an adventurous side, when a group of dwarves and Gandalf the wizard come to his hobbit hole requesting that he comes with them as a Burglar. Their treasure and mountain had been stolen years earlier by the terrible dragon Smaug. So when Bilbo decides to go they head east towards the mountain. During this journey they run into all sorts of creatures like trolls and obviously a dragon. They also run into good creatures though like the elves of rivendel. Overall this book is very enthralling and will hold in fantasy lover's attention."
"a couple of months ago i bought the hobbit together with the lord of the rings, thinking that you just have to read them even though i didn't like the movies at all. checking the wikipedia i found that the hobbit was chronologically the earliest of them both in when it has been written and when it is settled in tolkien's universe. so i decided to start with it.
and how surprised i was! really it was a beautiful, catching story, leaving me not to be able to put it down on the last two hundred pages. i was amazed to see how the hobbit getting more and more mature over his adventures; the hobbit in the end was surely not the same hobbit of the beginning; but sure you will love them both. the world seemed to be so real that i was in no doubt that all this really happened, though sometimes the way that the hobbit got out of his troubles seemed quite impossible, possible though due to tolkien's convincing way of telling.
the adventures where real adventures! they were so adventuresome that i would disagree with people saying it's a story for little children; there was way to many characters getting killed for that it was a children's story, albeit the light-hearted way of telling and the mixture of adventure and comfort."
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