A classic for all ages, get it for sure!

This hardcover collector's edition Hobbit is very beautiful and a pleasure just to look at on your shelf.

If you are one of the minority who have not read this treasured tale, you must get this book in some form. I'd say borrow it fromthe library, but save yourself a trip and purchase it. It is a story you will want to share with your kids and may revisit yourself in the future.

The story is a classic and suitable for any age. The timeless tale of the adventures of Bilbo Baggins, a hobbit of the Shire, who sets out on an adventure with a wizard and band of racous dwarves to become worldly, wise and one of the most important people in all of Middle-Earth. There is much great adventure within the covers of this book and you will be taken away to a much more majestic world with fantastic creatures and events.

Tolkien is truly a master of the tale and has created a beautiful world, with incredibly complex characters, beautiful languages, rituals and grandeur. To look at the work alone is amazing at the amount of energy adn brilliance needed to create such a fantastic masterpiece.

The Hobbit or There and Back Again

I wanted a copy of The Hobbit to go with my Lord of the Rings trilogy. The day it came I admired the book then turned to the first page "just to look at it." I didn't put the book down until I had finished it! I loved every word of it.

I love Tolkein's clever, engrossing storytelling. His trilogy is enthralling, but it takes a major time commitment to get through all three books. The Hobbit is an easier, shorter read with all the fun and excitement of a fantastical adventure. It's tone is lighter than the somber trilogy.

The Hobbit is a wonderful book for adults as well as older children. It serves as an introduction to Tolkien's Lord of the Rings trilogy or stands alone as a classic in its own right.

The sometimes unknown Masterpiece!

The Hobbit is the magnificent beginning to the now popular Lord of the Rings, Trilogy. This book should be read by anyone who loves the fantasy genre, but especially for those that have enjoyed the Lord of the Rings. The Hobbit provides, (with amazingly vivid detail) a stunning desription of Middle-Earth and some of it's history. It also introduces you to Gandolf and Bilbo and how they became friends; as well as the trecherous Golem and the story of how Bilbo came to posess "The Ring". All of this is wrapped into a fantastic adventure that really stands alone from the Lord of the Rings and yet is in my opinion crucial to set up and create the background for the Lord of the Rings.

In summary; you will love this book all by itself with all it's orcs, dwarves, elves, dragon, wizard, hobbits and more. But perhaps you will take even more from it if you already have an appreciation for the Lord of the Rings. You will not be disapointed with this book wheather in hardback or in softcover.

The Hobbit

Of all the dragon tales this one is my favorite (Anne McCaffrey included). For just a moment forget what you know of Middle Earth and the Third Age of Men. Forget the Fall of Numenor and the tales of the West. Forget Dark Lords, Rings of Power and the race of forgotten kings. This story is merely incidental to the Lord of the Rings. This story stands on its own as a great adventure epic. The resurfacing of the Ring of Power is a mere footnote in this epic treasure quest. Meet the Dwarves and journey on a greedy theives errend to plunder gold from Smaug, the last of his kind.

the Hobbit, aka: There and Back Again

I've known Bilbo and those of Middle Earth since my first read in the late 60's and more in the early 70's. I wanted to own a hardcover edition and so won this on ebay.
Although much simple a read, being a children's story when written, than "Lord of the Rings" "the Hobbit" is a very good introduction to Middle Earth and a most excellent story.
Belief of the story at any level needs to be left to the individual. I've read all four books (five actually counting the "Symarilion"- sure I butchered that) each time they called to me from a drawer or shelf and continue to learn more at each reading.
It is grounding - centering back onto one's foundation - thing for me.

I suggest everyone should try to read these.

Kipster,
M-Boro, TN