The Hobbit
A stay-at-home hobbit leaves his comfortable hole and discovers he is braver than he ever imagined.
There and Back Again
J.R.R. Tolkien's 1937 adventure follows Bilbo Baggins, a respectable hobbit who is recruited by the wizard Gandalf to join a company of thirteen dwarves on a quest to reclaim their mountain home from the dragon Smaug. Along the way Bilbo finds a mysterious ring, outwits a creature called Gollum, and discovers depths of courage he never knew he possessed.
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"If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
"J.R.R. Tolkien · The Hobbit
Tolkien reportedly began the story on a blank exam paper he was grading, writing the first line spontaneously. He read it aloud to his children for years before it was ever published.
The book has sold over 100 million copies and launched an entire literary mythology. Peter Jackson's three-film adaptation expanded the slim 310-page novel into nine hours of cinema.
There and back again
One reluctant burglar, thirteen dwarves, and a dragon on a heap of gold. Get The Hobbit on Amazon.