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Bilbo Baggins, a respectable, well-to-do hobbit, lives comfortably in his hobbit-hole until the day the wandering wizard Gandalf chooses him to take part in an adventure from which he may never return. He becomes a thief for a band of dwarves and soon finds himself in the midst of a war with the evil goblins and wargs, and is forced to make a decision between the call of duty and the pull of the simple life.
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In one volume for the first time, this revised and updated examination of how J. R. R. Tolkien came to write his original masterpiece “The Hobbit” includes his complete unpublished draft version of the story, together with notes and illustrations by Tolkien himself.
The Hobbit was first published on September 21,1937. Like its sequel, “The Lord of the Rings”, it is a story that "grew in the telling," and many characters and plot threads in...
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