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The Hobbit, or There and Back Again

J.R.R. Tolkien

Start date: December 13, 2012

Finish date: February 13, 2012

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Oct 11, 2009 Gaijinmama rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: favorites, fiction, re-read, classics, fantasy

Full disclosure: I am a life-long Tolkien geek. Mock me, and I'll cuss you out in Elvish. And then I'll breathe a bit of fire at you.
This is the prequel to The Lord of the Rings. I actually read LOTR first when I was 9 years old (back when dinosaurs walked the earth...) and it was rough going, so I highly recommend reading The Hobbit first. It explains a lot of things that are important to the trilogy. Also, unlike LOTR, this is a children's book. It's not just for children, by any means, but it ...more

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Oct 12, 2010 Nance rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: classics, fantasy, books-read-2011

What can I say about an all-time favorite classic that has had an audience of readers mezmerized for decades? I really can't review a classic book such as this because it is simply a masterpiece of fantasy with characters that are entertaining and delightful...my favorite being, of course, the Hobbit, Bilbo Baggins. Simply put, it is a story of a hobbit who is volunteered by a wizard as a "burgular" to help a dwarf get his family's treasure back from a mean dragon that lives on a mountain who cl ...more

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Aug 16, 2010 Katie J Schwartz rated it really liked it

Shelves: suspend-reality, classics, childrens-lit, dragon-hoard, linguistickies, onscreen, banned

For a very long time, I staunchly refused to read this book. We had a copy of the animated version when I was little, and I was terrified of it. The giant spiders, the goblins, the dragon, Gollum...you name it, I was scared of it. Anyway, needless to say I got over my fear and read the book. It is an excellent story - much easier to take in than any of the Lord of the Rings trilogy. I'm pretty excited for the live action movie, although I hope that the goblins don't actually sing this time. ...more

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