The Hobbit

Charles Dixon Sean Deming J.R.R. Tolkien First published 1991

About this book

Bilbo Baggins is a hobbit who enjoys a comfortable, unambitious life, rarely travelling further than the pantry of his hobbit-hole in Bag End. But his contentment is disturbed when the wizard, Gandalf, and a company of thirteen dwarves arrive on his doorstep one day to whisk him away on an unexpected journey ‘there and back again’. They have a plot to raid the treasure hoard of Smaug the Magnificent, a large and very dangerous dragon…

Subjects

  • children's fiction
  • comic books, strips
  • fantasy fiction
  • gandalf (fictitious character), fiction
  • middle earth (imaginary place)
  • middle earth (imaginary place), fiction