The hobbit, or, there and back again - J. R. R. Tolkien

The remarkable prelude to The Lord of the Rings--newly rejacketed for young readers with art by the author.

This edition includes a teaser chapter from The Fellowship of the Ring.

Illustrations.

(Available now) In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.

Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort.

Written for J.

Tolkien's own children, The Hobbit met with instant critical acclaim when it was first published in 1937.

Now recognized as a timeless classic, this introduction to the hobbit Bilbo Baggins, the wizard Gandalf, Gollum, and the spectacular world of Middle-earth recounts of the adventures of a reluctant hero, a powerful and dangerous ring, and the cruel dragon Smaug the Magnificent.

The text in this 372-page paperback edition is based on that first published in Great Britain by Collins Modern Classics (1998), and includes a note on the text by Douglas A.

Anderson (2001).

Unforgettable.