The Hobbit, or There and Back Again is the first published novel by J.R.R. Tolkien set in Middle-earth. The book was first published on September 21, 1937 and is set in the years 2941 to 2942 of the …

The setting of The Hobbit, as described on its original dust jacket, is an "ancient time between the age of Faerie and the dominion of men" in an unnamed fantasy world. [17] The world is shown on the …

An additional connection is with rabbit, one that Tolkien "emphatically rejected", [6] although the word appears in The Hobbit in connection with other characters' opinions of Bilbo in several places. [9] …

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"Hobbits really are amazing creatures, as I have said before. You can learn all that there is to know about their ways in a month, and yet after a hundred years they can still surprise you at a pinch." …

J.R.R. Tolkien's 'The Hobbit' tells the story of Bilbo Baggins and an incredible quest to retake a group of dwarves’ rightful home.

This hobbit was a very well-to-do hobbit, and his name was Baggins. The Bagginses had lived in the neighbourhood of The Hill for time out of mind, and people considered them very respectable, not …

By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) The Hobbit is one of the biggest-selling books of all time. An estimated 100 million people have read Tolkien’s classic children’s novel since it was f…

A reluctant Hobbit, Bilbo Baggins, sets out to the Lonely Mountain with a spirited group of dwarves to reclaim their mountain home and the gold within it from the dragon Smaug.

While Frodo and Sam edge closer to Mordor with the help of the shifty Gollum, the divided fellowship makes a stand against Sauron's new ally, Saruman, and his hordes of Isengard.