Nope. Tolkien The Hobbit, or There and Back Again is a fantasy novel by English author J. R. R. Tolkien. Children, parents, all those that stay children in their hearts. The Lord of the Rings: A Reader's Companion, The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies, Багремовој улици (Cyrillic) Bagremovoj Ulici (Latin), Koniec Lazov (Krupa tr.) Visit The Shire Bywater and Hobbiton. Frodo remained content at Bag End until Gandalf returned and confirmed that Bilbo's ring was actually the One Ring. Holman Cotton's name simply meaning "hole-man"), if not simply individual or contractions of English words (e.g. I discussed this novel with my book club, Austentatious, here: Not much more needs to be said about The Hobbit than that it is excellent! The name Bag End name came from the real-life farmhouse in the tiny Worcestershire village of Dormston, in which J.R.R. Opening sentence of The Hobbit, "An Unexpected Party" Bag End was a smial (Hobbit-hole) situated at the end of Bagshot Row in Hobbiton. But The Hobbit is still one of the most boring books I have ever read. Gandalf. Is it a complex tale of multiple human kingdoms slaughtering each other for an Iron Throne with buckets of blood and guts and plenty of sex? He succeeded only too well and lost control of the entire enterprise; after Saruman arrived, Gríma Wormtongue killed Lotho in his sleep. Martin as Dante created Italian from the common vernacular in Florence and Ravenna, was The Hobbit. The hobbit hole was noted to have a green door with a round brass knob, all but countless rooms with round windows, and a garden. But if the book is good, how do you give any recommendation that is equal the book? Wer wünscht sich nicht, in Zeiten des rasanten bildungspolitischen Wandels und der Umstrukturierung unserer Schullandschaft, eine gute, gesunde Schule, die Kinder und Jugendliche in ihrer Entwicklung und in ihrem Lernen optimal fördert. Bag End was a smial (Hobbit-hole) situated at the end of Bagshot Row in Hobbiton. When he heard that there was nothing to eat, he sat down and wept, for he felt very weak and wobbly in the legs. I find it hard to believe there are people who have no clue what the book is about. Tolkien's writing seems so dry and impersonal, though I can't deny he had a lot of fascinating ideas. Does that mean that I was incredibly disappointed in the movie adaptation (not to say abortion)? Finally Gandalf comes and the purpose of the gathering disclosed, a bold plan to kill a huge dragon Smaug the Magnificent, take the vast priceless treasure, the winged fire breathing behemoth sits on, inside the very distant Lonely Mountain, the dwarves ancient home. [You have such powerful and intimidating character as Smaug, the last of the dragons, with such fearful introduction and later bam! Preparations for departure ensued, with Frodo selling Bag End to the Sackville-Bagginses and moving to Crickhollow before departing on the Quest of the Ring. John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, CBE was an English writer, poet, WWI veteran (a First Lieutenant in the Lancashire Fusiliers, British Army), philologist, and university professor, best known as the author of the high fantasy classic works, “Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not; or that you feel good this morning; or that it is a morning to be good on?”, “There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something. In the books, it is said to be a translation of the Westron Labin-nec, which has much the same meaning, and bears the same relationship to the Westron form of Baggins: Labingi. As a number of authors have pointed out, however, being false may be one meaning of the word “fiction”, but it is not the only meaning, and it is not the meaning at play when we nowadays call something a work of fiction (Lamarque and Olsen 1994; Cohn 1999). Leave Skyrim behind and discover the path of the famous little Hobbit, Bilbo Baggins. Take your favorite fandoms with you and never miss a beat. ). Frodo became the Master of Bag End on their mutual birthday, when Frodo turned 33 and Bilbo turned 111. Welcome back. History. The Hobbit book, by itself, would not be possible to translate into a film without changing up and adding a few things to make it appeal to the mainstream audience. [1] It can also be seen as a pun on "cul-de-sac" (literally, "bottom of the bag"). "He is a strange creature." The Hobbit should be read as the Odyssey of Middle Earth - a voyage of self-learning and maturation that is more about the monsters in Bilbo's imagination than those encountered in his baptismal voyage into the unknown with Gandalf. In The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, the vernacular of the Shire is the Common Speech. Some books are almost impossible to review. Now I don't remember all the names of those 13 dwarfs, but still I can legitimately say I enjoyed the book. What's your all time best novel that you can repeatedly read ? See all 101 questions about The Hobbit, or There and Back Again…, Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once, Lord of the Rings 1-3 - General Comments and Observations. The Hobbit will introduce Tolkien's world and mythology, so you will have some context when you read LOTR. Bilbo left to live with the Elves at Rivendell. The book remains popular and is recognized as a classic in children's literature. It was Bungo who built the smial for Belladonna around the year TA 2889. The Hobbit can be sort of a "gateway" book, as it provides Tolkien's amazing fantasy and storytelling but without the (sometimes intimidating) detail and complexity of LOTR. The grounds and home were kept by the Gamgee family, most notably Hamfast ("The Gaffer") and later his son, Samwise. Upon his return long later, he discovered his possessions being auctioned off, since the local population had assumed he had died. If a book is bad, how easily can we dwell on its flaws! See there once was a hobbit (a race entirely created by Tolkien and endlessly recycled since under name halflings - for copyright reasons) named Bilbo Baggins. From a hole in the ground came one of my favorite characters of all time, the very reluctant and unassuming hero, Bilbo Baggins. The book, even for a slow reader is most likely able to be finished in 1/3 the time that Peter Jackson spent telling the story in 70mm film.