THE HOBBIT

"Bilbo Baggins is a hobbit who enjoys acomfortable, unambitious life, rarely travellingfurther than the pantry of his hobbit-hole in BagEnd.But his contentment is disturbed when thewizard, Gandalf, and a company of 13 dwarvesarrive on his doorstep one day to whisk himaway on an unexpected journey 'there and backagain'. They have a plot to raid the treasurehoard of Smaug the Magnificent, a large andvery dangerous dragon...
The prelude to The Lord of the Rings, TheHobbit has sold many millions of copies sinceits publication in 1937,establishing itself as oneof the most beloved and influential books of the20th century.
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John Ronald Reuel Tolkien(1892-1973) was anEnglish writer, poet, philologist, and academic.From 1925 to 1945, he was the Professor of theUniversity of Oxford. He was a close friend of C.S.Lewis. He was appointed a Commander of theOrder of the British Empire by Queen Elizabethin 1972.The great success of The Hobbit andThe Lord of the Rings led directly to a popularresurgence of the genre. This has causedTolkien to be popularly identified as the "fathe""of modern fantasy literature.
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