Facts about the book and the author

“The Hobbit” or “There and back again” is published in London by HarperCollinsPublishers in 1991 and written by J.R.R Tolkien .
Tolkien was born on January 3rd 1892 in Bloemfontein, South-Africa . Apart from his long and distinguished academic career, he is best known for his extraordinary works of fiction . His works are translated into over 24 languages and millions of copies have been sold worldwide . He was awarded the CBE, and an honorary doctorate of Letters from Oxford University in 1972 . He died in 1973 at the age of 81 .
Tolkien wrote “The Hobbit” for his own children and the book became an enormous succes after the first publication in 1937 . In “The Times” the book was described as ‘one of the most influential books of our generation’ and as ‘a flawless masterpiece’ .

Beside “The Hobbit” Tolkien’s best known books are probably “The Lord of the Rings” and “The Silmarillion” but he has also written following books :

“The adventures of Tom Bombadil” “The Book of Lost Tales 1&2”
“Farmer Giles of Ham” “The Return of the Shadow”
“The Father Christmas Letters” “The Shaping of Middle-Earth”
“The Lays of Beleriand” “Smith of Wootton Major”
“The Lost Road” “The Treason of Isengard”
“Mr. Bliss” “The War of the Ring”
“The Monsters and the Critics” “Poems and Stories”


An analysis of the book

Genre : Fantasy

Outline : Bilbo Baggins is a hobbit who enjoys a comfortable, unambitious life, rarely travelling any further than his pantry or his cellar. But his contentment is disturbed when a wizard, Gandalf, and a company of dwarves arrive on his doorstep one day to whisk him away on an adventure .
Their road leeds to the Lonely Mountain where Smaug the Magnificent, an enormous dragon, guards a treasure hoard that used to belong to the dwarves, but the road towards the Lonely Mountain is full of dangers and life threatening creatures .
In the very beginning of their quest they fall into the hands of goblins, great ugly-looking creatures . These goblins loose Bilbo accidentally and that’s how he finds a magic ring in one of their caves that turns out to be very useful in further adventures .
After escaping from giant spiders and surviving frightening situations they finally arrive at the Lonely Mountain .




Bilbo demonstrates his bravery and thinking skills as he works to rid the mountain of Smaug (with a little bit of good luck and help from his magic ring) . A great battle culminates the adventure and Bilbo is able to return to his beloved hobbithole .

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