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The Hobbit, or There and Back Again is a children's fantasy novel by the English author J. R. R. Tolkien. It was published in 1937 to wide critical acclaim, being nominated for the Carnegie Medal and awarded a prize from the New York Herald Tribune for best juvenile fiction.
- J. R. R. Tolkien, Douglas A Anderson
- 1937
Tolkien’s most popular works, The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings are set in Middle-earth, an imagined world with strangely familiar settings inhabited by ancient and extraordinary peoples.
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18 set 2012 · Set in the imaginary world of Middle-earth, at once a classic myth and a modern fairy tale, The Hobbit is one of literature's most enduring and well-loved novels. Bilbo Baggins is a hobbit who enjoys a comfortable, unambitious life, rarely traveling any farther than his pantry or cellar.
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There is an inscription in the Cirthcharacters in the title page, it reads: 1. "The Hobbit or There and Back Again, being the record of a year's journey made by Bilbo Baggins of Hobbiton; compiled from his memoirs by J.R.R. Tolkien and published by George Allen and Unwin Ltd."
Gandalf tricks Bilbo Baggins into hosting a party for Thorin Oakenshield and his band of twelve dwarves (Dwalin, Balin, Kili, Fili, Dori, Nori, Ori, Oin, Gloin, Bifur, Bofur, and Bombur), who sing of reclaiming their ancient home, Lonely Mountain, and its vast treasure from the dragon Smaug. When the music ends, Gandalf unveils Thrór's Map showing ...
All editions of The Hobbitcontain two maps: 1. Thror's map 2. Map of Wilderland Most editions include another series of eight black and white illustrations, in some editions these have been coloured by H.E. Riddett, these are: 1. The Trolls 2. The Mountain-path 3. The Misty Mountains looking West 4. Beorn's Hall 5. The Elvenking's Gate 6. Lake Town...
Tolkien recollects in a 1955 letter to W.H. Auden (Letters, no. 163) that, in the late 1920s, when he was Professor of Anglo-Saxon at Pembroke College, The Hobbitbegan when he was marking School Certificate papers, on the back of one of which he wrote the words "In a hole in the ground, there lived a hobbit" which evolved into a story like the ones...
George Allen & Unwin, Ltd. of London published the first edition of The Hobbit on 21 September 1937. It was illustrated with many black-and-white drawings by Tolkien himself. The original printing numbered a mere 1,500 copies and sold out by 15 December that same year due to enthusiastic reviews. Houghton Mifflin of Boston and New York prepared an ...
On first publication in October 1937, The Hobbit was met with almost unanimously favourable reviews from publications both in the UK and the US, including The Times, Catholic World, and New York Post. C.S. Lewis, friend of Tolkien (and later author of The Chronicles of Narnia between 1949 and 1954), writing in The Timesreports: Lewis compares the b...
Radio and audio
The Hobbit has been adapted for other media. BBC Radio 4 broadcast The Hobbit radio drama, adapted by Michael Kilgarriff, in eight parts (4 hours) from September to November 1968, which starred Anthony Jackson as narrator, Paul Daneman as Bilbo and Heron Carvicas Gandalf. Middle-earth has been featured in songs notably by Enya and the Brobdingnagian Bards. Led Zeppelin's songs "Misty Mountain Hop" and "Ramble On" both contain references to Tolkien's mystical world. For The Hobbit itself, "The...
Video games
Several computer and video games, both official and unofficial, have been based on the story. One of the first was The Hobbit, a computer game developed in 1982by Beam Software and published by Melbourne House for most computers available at the time, from the more popular computers such as the ZX Spectrum, and the Commodore 64, through to such esoteric computers as the Dragon 32 and Oric computers. By arrangement with publishers, a copy of the novel was included with each game sold. Vivendi...
Films
The first adaptation of The Hobbit was presented as J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit, and was created by Gene Deitch in 1967. The film was produced by William Lawrence Snyder and took less than a month to create. The film was approximately twelve minutes long and was only created so that Snyder could extend his license for The Lord of the Ringsand sell it back to Tolkien and his publishers, which he did for $100,000. An animated film was first broadcasted on Sunday, 27 November, 1977 on NBC by Ran...
Poems in The HobbitTranslations of The Hobbit"The Quest of Erebor", from Unfinished TalesImages from The Hobbit illustrated by Alan LeeUK editions of The HobbitThe Hobbit: What has made the book such an enduring success? by Tom ShippeyEvery Dutch edition of The HobbitA short summary of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit. This free synopsis covers all the crucial plot points of The Hobbit.
- J. R. R. Tolkien, Douglas A Anderson
- 1937
20 apr 2009 · The Hobbit. J. R. R. Tolkien. HarperCollins UK, Apr 20, 2009 - Fiction - 320 pages. This is the story of how a Baggins had an adventure, and found himself doing and saying things altogether...
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 Third Age before the events of The Lord of the Rings.[1] Initially intended as a standalone story...
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