... sees it. Well, maybe it's just me. I gave the thing up in disgust before the end. I very nearly threw it out. Oh, and The Hobbit. I'm pretty sure I'd rather stab my own eyes out than read another word of Tolkien's prose.
... attempting to read House of Seven Gables about 3 times, I'm not looking forward to trying for #4 and the same goes for The Hobbit. I'm not a fantasy fan in the first place so this one is at the bottom of that pile of dreads. I trudged through Portrait of the Artist and am not looking ...
... three higher than Pride and Prejudice:
The Catcher in the Rye at 14,865
1984 at 15,171
and the grand champion:
The Hobbit at 16,153
... series which is Christopher Tolkien's compilation of all his father's writings which preceded the publication of The Hobbit & The Lord of the Rings. It includes all of the earliest incarntions of the characters & plots as well as the Genesis of Middle Earth itself. The War of the J ...
My husband & I used to do this a lot, not as much lately. The last book we read out loud together was The Hobbit.
... Bride. When trying to get others to hurry up, I say "No time for that!" as they're in the middle of something, from The Hobbit. There are others that I've used just as occasion warrants. But I often think of lines from books to insert as replies in conversation rather than coming up ...
Car book: Julian
Bus book: Flashman in the Great Game
Bed book: The Hobbit
I've read The Hobbit several times but not for many years and I'm really enjoying it. Trying to go slow and savor it but I'll likely finish tonight.
... them.
The only fantasy I can read any more is stuff by Robert E. Howard, Michael Moorcock and Fritz Leiber. The Hobbit has been a favorite for years, so I could reread that.
I have noticed that I enjoy a lot of the Warhammer novels. I think I like those for some of the ...
... NOT READ THAT BOOK! lol.
I have had 2 instances where I started a book but couldn't get very far into it. Those being The Hobbit and House of Seven Gables. I may try to read them again later down the line, but I never could make it past the first chapter.
#15 - Abso-EFFING-loutely. Well, I read all of LotR before I got my hands on The Hobbit, and for me it was the Summer of 1972. I don't think that any Fall I've lived through since then has ever been without that Hobbitty feeling. I want to pick up a nice walking stick and head off into the ...
As odd as this sounds, the autumn often reminds me of my first reading of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. For some reason, I ended up catching pneumonia in October of 1973. I was sick with it for over a week. And, my Mom, feeling badly for me, while she was at Rosedale, ended up ...
... of the Rings I never looked back.
Of course, since I had no idea about the order of the books or anything, I mistook The Hobbit for the first book because it said "The enchanting prelude to The Lord of the Rings" on the cover. So I went home from the library with The Hobbit, The Two Tow ...
... say that the two books that I tried so hard to start but failed were House of Seven gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne and The Hobbit by J R R Tolkien. I'm not shunning these authors by no means because I really enjoyed The Scarlet Letter, but House of Seven Gables was so dry that I had ...
Hey, there's a new version of The Hobbit out. It's an annotated edition in two volumes, with notes and apparatus on the construction, evolution of the composition, like the History of Middle-earth volumes by Christopher Tolkien.
This one is The History of the Hobbit. I picked up Part One: ...
... or if I want to read The Amber Spyglass first and finally finish that series (which is not a reread). Or I could finish The Hobbit which I have been gradually rereading. Too many choices.
... J.R.R. Tolkien
What can I really add about these classics? I have such a special relationship to these books, and to The Hobbit, which I also reread this summer. All were an essential part of my childhood. I read them probably once a year between the ages of seven or eight and thirteen. I ...
... for the ideas.
My preferences run to Science Fiction first, historical romance second and fantasy third.
I've read The Hobbit and The Lord of The Rings by J.R.R. Tolkein several times, and just acquired The Simarillion - second edition, with a lengthy letter from Tolkein to his ...
... hard science fiction to space opera. It's been harder to find Fantasy that I enjoy reading having started with Tolkein's The Hobbit and then The Lord of the Rings - The Chronicles of Narnia just didn't have the same power or depth for me. Phillip Pullman's The Golden Compass series I ...
... count? or Choke by Chuck Palahniuk
(7) Romance
A Room with a view or Pride and Prejudice
(8) Fantasy
The Hobbit as I think it's the only fantasy book I have read, due to not having completed LOTR in it's entirety yet.
(9) Classic (or "author is dead")
Anna Karenina - ...
... sses
8) badly timed - fish on a table, man on stool, cat gets the bones
9) time
A couple of years since i last read the Hobbit but I still remember them well. Although 3 gave me some trouble.
I won't ask "What have I got in my pocket" because we all know its not String or Nothing.
Try ...
... There does, however, seem to be excessive white space on either side (at least for books with many, many ISBN's like The Hobbit).
...
# The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien (2 tags on 11139 copies) — below the 1% threshhold
# The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien (2 tags on 15334 copies) — below the 1% threshhold
# Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling (2 ...
My favorite book has been The Hobbit. I read that six or seven times as a kid and my understanding of it grew as I did. I've probably read books that I enjoyed more since then, but Bilbo will always have a special place. (Funny, I didn't care much for The Lord of the Rings...)
My favorite ...
... knows how to write a classic love story while still keep enough dry humor to avoid the sappiness.
(8) Fantasy
The Hobbit and The Lord Of The Rings. The details, the mythology, the characters, the storytelling...all excellent.
(9) Classic
I honestly haven't read a lot of ...
... The Book of Skulls by Robert Silverberg
8. A Bell For adano by John Hersey (Pulitzer Prize for novel 1945)
9. The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tokein (a reread)
10. Armageddon;A novel of Berlin by Leon Uris
11. The Long Walk by Stephen King
12. The Runnig Man by Stephen K ...
... Tolkien
As good as I expected. Parts of it were a little heavy, but generally I enjoyed reading it. I started re-reading The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings after I'd finished the Silmarillion and I have to say that having read the Silmarillion has really added to my understanding and ...
... seem to come into the discussion.
I was reading CS Lewis a year before everyone else, and I read Tolkien's The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings by the time I was 10.
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
The Iliad
The Odyssey
The Hobbit
Wyeth At Kuerners
The Longest Day
Beowulf
The Ancestor's Tale
The Demon-Haunted World
Naked
... thrush knocks," read Elrond, "and the setting sun with the last light of the Durin's Day will shine upon the key-hole."
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
... first Harry Potter book and never mustered enough interest to pick up the second. Not bad, just not interesting to me. Love The Hobbit, like LOTR, but I'd rather read Diana Wynne Jones' Chrestomanci stories (Charmed Life, The Lives of Christopher Chant) if I want children-learning-magic and ...
... to fit better to this discussion thread.
This is simply fascinating! The first one on my list of “adult” is – The Hobbit. War and Peace 4 is about agriculture. Animal farm, Little Prince, The Calvin and Hobbes tenth anniversary book, War and peace, Hieronymus Bosch (1450- ...
This is simply fascinating! The first one on my list of “adult” is – The Hobbit. War and Peace 4 is about agriculture. Animal farm, Little Prince, The Calvin and Hobbes tenth anniversary book, War and peace, Hieronymus Bosch (1450-1516) by Walter Bosing, Origin of Species, ...
The adult tag is kind of a strange mish-mash. In my tag mirror it includes such works as The Hobbit, The Princess Bride, and Watership Down by which I presume some people are trying to counteract the presumption that these are children's books. On the other hand other books with this tag ...
... house or publishing year (or both), and yes stemming would help such a search immensely. When I am adding my copy of the Hobbit which is old enough to predate ISBN's I do not want to scroll through 542 results to find the edition that I have, but I don't want to just pick an incorrect one ...
>33, 34. Yes, just checked the list again - The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit are there.
> 33
Well, I guess I DO have a few copies of books that I wish I hadn't parted with... My current copy of The Hobbit replaced one that I lent to someone (and I've long since forgot who...). THAT copy was an original Allen & Unwin paperback with Tolkein's hand-draw cover: Smaug trashing Esgaro ...
... so I felt compelled to find out what was going on.. I got through book four and gave up; I suppose I was comparing it to The Hobbit / LOTR, and finding it wanting.
I know it's hard to find absorbing material for kids, but does it have to be this? What was wrong with A Wrinkle in Time, ...
... I could've sworn I had already posted something here... I'm having the strongest sense of déjá-vu...)
Kudoz to The Hobbit and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy!!!
Another one:
September 15th was Kevin's birthday, and he got exactly what he wanted: a Sun.
From Th ...
I guess I really am home here...
You're The Hobbit!
by J.R.R. Tolkien
All you wanted was a nice cup of tea when some haggard crazy old man
came into your life and told you it was time to do something with yourself. ...
The Hobbit has some interesting examples: http://www.librarything.com/review/16894328 , http://www.librarything.com/review/2023427 , http://www.librarything.com/review/11429626
I think they are all blue flagworthy - not for being short, but for saying nothing about the book at all.
I've ...
... I suppose I should be grateful that only two were flagged. I then went and looked at all the reviews for these two books (The Hobbit and A brief history of time) and it seems that all the short reviews have been flagged. Yes, they're short, but most of them say something about the book and ...
The first fantasy I read was The Hobbit, the first sci-fi would have been Andre Norton's Daybreak, 2250 A.D., also known as Starman's Sun, I think.
There was some serious latencies or delays and I entered the reply to $50 twice, so I've converted one to be on the topic.
... Dark is Rising series by Susan Cooper (and I enjoyed), though I didn't really start getting into fantasy until I read the Hobbit a couple years later. My first sci-fi were Isaac Asimov's Foundation series which my grandpa started my on.
Twelve is a great age to start reading Tolkien! There are some wonderful illustrated editions of The Hobbit that might hold her attention better than straight text.
The High King by Lloyd Alexander. I might have read The Hobbit before that, but it didn't make an impact. It was probably Starless Night by R.A. Salvatore that really sealed the deal, though.
Looking back, I started both of those series out of order. Odd. Loved 'em anyway, though. : ...
A bowl of Trix cereal, left to get soggy while I read chapter 5 of The Hobbit to my son.
... Crumb picker and The Fabulous Firework Family by James Flora
Bedtime For Frances
and as a reader myself
The Hobbit
The Saturdays by Elizabeth Enright
The Little White Horse by Elizabeth Goudge
Half Magic by Edwad Eager
Nancy and Plum by Betty MacDonald
Lad, a Dog ...
... years later in my very early teens: Fahrenheit 451. Mom taught that one in her high school English class (along with the Hobbit, and Alas Babylon -- Mom was a very cool teacher!). I proceeded to read a LOT of Bradbury after that and eventually discovered Heinlein and read a LOT ...
My username refers to the dwarf Dori from J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit.
I first The Hobbit as a young young kid, so I'm really looking forward to this book.
I know this is "off-topic," but a reimagining of The Hobbit reminds me of the classic parody Bored of the Rings.
Re: #25
There and Back Again by Pat Murphy.
Yes, it is The Hobbit as a science fiction story with the genders of all the characters switched.
... across There and Back Again by Pat Murphy. I ordered it on bookmooch and haven't read it yet, but apparently it's The Hobbit reimagined as a space opera.
When i'm really sick, my comfort books tend to be orderly, episodic, and upbeat:
The Hobbit and The Return of the King (second half)
The Snow Queen
Isak Dinesen's tales
watership down
And some non-fantasy comfort books i like are:
James Herriot's tales like all Thi ...
... impressed with Transmission.
It seems like the second novel by the authors I've read--Hari Kunzru, Sarah Waters, Monica Ali, Zadie Smith, David Mitchell--have all been less successful than their first. Smith certainly came back strong with On Beauty.
Some of my most owned books are:
The Harry Potters, The Hobbit, 1984, Catcher in the Rye, Pride and Prejudice, To Kill a Mockingbird.
... The Great Gatsby, and Jane Eyre. I think I have most of the really common books on LT. I also have LotR and the Hobbit (obviously) but in a box set so they're not up there on my list.
#30 - Most shared that I have is The Hobbit, 13.680 copies ;-)
followed by 1984, 12.845 copies
Catcher in the Rye, 12.587... why do I own this books? I don't like it!
...followed by the LoTR books, but the odd thing is American Gods manage to squeeze in between TTT and RoTK... How can ...
... day and threw it on the stack of stuff to be given away. I fell for the hype and regretted wasting my time reading it.
The Hobbit - read it in my late teens and just *hated* it. I had to force myself to finish it. And I've never read The Lord of the Rings trilogy because of The Hobbit. ...
... fifth. The fourth I think is kind of too much of a vindication to be enjoyable for a kid? But, who knows?
And of course The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings!
At that age I also read some Alan Garner books, like The weirdstone of Brisingamen and Elidor.
What about The Hobbit? You teared through Tolkien - what about him? :)
... but as the series is ending in less than a week, who will replace it in your lives?? Eragon? or the old favourites the Hobbit or will you move into deeper realms dragonlance or darker Storm front?
The BBC ...
... by Melissa Bank
Going by the 50-page rule, I gave up on this. Snore. Good thing it only cost $1.
10. The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
I originally thought I wouldn't count re-reads, but I haven't read this in over a decade, so I think it's fair to include.
One of my ...
... fantasy story I read was Serendipity, which was a children's book. Other loves through the years were the Narnia books, The Hobbit, The Chronicals of Prydain, The Wrinkle in Time books and The Dark is Rising series. Once I got into junior high I discovered A Spell for Chameleon, which ...
I don't agree with combining annotated works with their "parent" book.
It happens with The Hobbit and The Annotated Hobbit occasionally, but they usually get separated rather quickly so I must not be the only one with this opinion.
... a pencil sketch. I don't remember the name of the book. (It wasn't Flight of Dragons :P)
But my first real love is The Hobbit, followed by Lord of the Rings. Cliche, I know hahahaha!
Hhmmm...way back in the mists of time, when I was a young boy, I think that my first exposure to the genre was the Hobbit, but not as a book. I recall watching the old animated movie of the Hobbit and loving it, but being VERY frightened of the dragon, Smaug. I later read the book and was hooked ...
... from Elidor which I tried to follow as closely as I could. This was probably my first exposure to it. After that came the Hobbit, sold with a computer game from Melbourne House in the mid-eighties. This lead me to find the norwegian translations of the Hobbitt and the Lord of the Rings ...
... is in the southern end of Mirkwood. You can find it on the maps in The Lord of the Rings, though not in my edition of The Hobbit if memory serves me correct.
After Gandalf and the White Council and their army attacked Dol Guldur, Sauron escaped with his followers to Mordor.
... Land of Oz
(There are buckets of sequels, but the first two books each stand on their own.)
J.R. R. Tolkien The Hobbit (it has a very famous sequel that you need not read to enjoy it ;)
-Kushana
I bought and started reading Shantaram two days ago and started rereading the Hobbit
... The Chronicles of Narnia. I don't recall reading any other fantasies at that age level. I think the next ones were The Hobbit and A Wizard of Earthsea.
My daughter votes for elves, but I have to say that I'm split on the issue. In The Hobbit, I was totally more into the dwarves. But in LOTR, they have a different sort of take. So I can't decide!
... I went to Manderley again."
--Rebecca by Daphne DuMaurier
"In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit."
--The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
"When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow."
-- To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
"The ...
#11 - Ah, but the elves in The Hobbit knew how to party!
:o)
I reckon LOTR is an "adult" book and The Hobbit is a childrens/teens book. You need to be a lot more committed to read LOTR, where the Hobbit is much more like a fable and flows better.
My mum always wanted me to read Little Women as it was her favourite book as a child. I put it down lots ...
... rating 4.35.
5. The Da Vinci code by Dan Brown
Popularity 7. 13960 copies. 371 reviews. Average rating 3.47.
6. The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
Popularity 8. 12726 copies. 85 reviews. Average rating 4.31.
7. The lord of the rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
Popularity 14. 9242 copies. 73 ...
... of abandonment to Harry Potter, and much more mystical toward the end)
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland?
Dr Dolittle
The Hobbit, which is much easier to read than Lord of the Rings and suitable for primary school age. There are some scary mystical creatures, but I am not sure if they ...
1. The Time Travelers Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
2. The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
3. Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling
4. The Little House by Philippa Gregory
Now reading;
5. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J. K. Rowling
... and have started the challenge from this June to June 2008.
1. The Time Travelers Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
2. The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
3. Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling
Now reading
4. The Little House by Philippa Gregory
... like them, or to see if the unabridged are available, and you can give those a listen.
Just went & checked: unabridged The Hobbit is 10 CDs or 7 cassettes/11 hours. Intersting, hadn't calculated the media difference to realize they can squeeze more onto a tape, and so charge less (but ...
... rave about C j Cherryh's works, but this was just amazing. I haven't enjoyed a book as much as this, ever, including Lord of the Rings: , Terry Pratchett or any classic.
Hello,I'm 13,and my favourite books are Sunwing, Silverwing, and Firewing, by Kenneth Oppel, and The Hobbit, and well as The Chronicles of Narnia. I could go on and on about the books I like, but sadly, there's not enough space, so that's about it. My favorite author is Kenneth Oppel ...
... nevermind. ha.
ooooh. I have a grand idea! *claps hands delightedly*
Let's picture them being turned to stone like in "The Hobbit"!
:)
... so far...
January
The War of the World: Twentieth Century Conflict and the Descent of the West by Niall Ferguson
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkein
The Origins of the First and Second World Wars by Frank McDonough
The Poverty of Progress: Latin America In The Nineteenth Century by E. B ...
There are nine reviews of the NPR version of The Hobbit at iTunes, and most of them are mildly positive. It averages 3 stars out of five; most say the BBC version is better. It's from Audible.com, so maybe you should look there for reviews as well.
la saga de la Terre du Milieu: notamment Bilbo et le Seigneur des Anneaux
Bilbo and lord of the rings and other works by Tolkien with regard to the Middle-Earth
The swan's war by Sean Russel
Avalon by Marion Bradley Zimmer
bilbo and Lord of the rings by Tolkien are the best books I've ever read, for me there is a "before" Tolkien and after Tolkien I have read them at the age of 20
and I thought to be never so captivated by a fantasy book
Anyway I have of course read other fantasy books and I have ...
... and all, it was just too slow for me with not enough to keep my interest.
That said, I liked TLotR trilogy and the The Hobbit, even though they can become very descriptive and slow... I don't know what made the difference for me. I couldn't read the pre-quel though... the title eludes ...
... in May with work commitments, family functions and the nicer weather.
May
35. Roadwork by Stephen King
36. The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
37. The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien
38. The Two Towers by J.R.R. Tolkien
39. The Return of the King by J.R.R ...
I see that 346 of us own a copy of American Gods by Neil Gaiman. It and The Hobbit are the only Fantasy books on the "most commonly shared books" list for this group.
I understand why The Hobbit is there (it is a very common book) and I know why I own a copy of American Gods (I like Fant ...
Speaking of The Hobbit, HELP is needed to separate hundreds of other books which have been combined with it. It is going to take a lot of person-hours.
Someone has combined many other of Tolkien's books with The Hobbit. Any assistance in separating them will be much appreciated.
... fact that the various editions have differing publication dates? Example: I have a collectors edition in slip case of The Hobbit but on some lists of shared books it will list several volumes of The Hobbit but not the collector's ed. & all w/another pulication date? How does this ...
... Pride and Prejudice & Northanger Abbey
after that I read
Harry Potter 1-4
Sense and Sensibility
Persuasion
The Hobbit
The lord of the Rings and winter was there.
At that point I had no books left to read and was scheduled for a skiing weekend. BUT in my room I had a trunk ...
... horror or crime fiction and/or 99% of science fantasy or stuff to do with magic, wizards, witches, occult etc. I did read The Hobbit once, which was OK. I can't watch the LOTR movies, however - way too violent and creepy for me :P
... You get Flickr by this address (which disappeared in above message. . . if it vanishes again I promise to give up!!)estawolf there
... trouble focusing on them than I do on written words. I'm also extremely picky about the voices. When I was a kid we had The Hobbit on tape, done by...somebody, an Englishman who's also (slightly) famous as an actor but his name totally escapes me at the moment. He was _wonderful_ - one ...
... it's charming! I'm pleasantly surprised. I've not really cared for dragon books in the past. (Ok, there's a dragon in The Hobbit, but that's totally different. I mean, the Professor can do no wrong.) I just might have to get the other books in the series to feed my book addiction.
May ...
... morning for!" said Gandalf. "Now you mean that you want to get rid of me, and that it won't be good till I move off!"
The Hobbit, previously Bilbo and Gandalf had determined 4 meanings to Bilbo's initial "Good Morning" to Gandalf.
2nd: I am reminded of how a difference between Europeans ...
I have a set of cassette tapes with J.R.R. singing and reading the riddle game in The Hobbit. It's absolutely marvelous! I really need to transfer them to CDs, I suppose, for safekeeping.
katylit - I'm almost to Rivendell - we're at the Ford at the moment. I'm really stressed with this ...
15. Vampirates by Somper, pretty good book, started a little slow but left you wanting more in the end.
16. The Hobbit by Tolkien, not the first time to read this one and won't be the last. If you have never read The Hobbit, you need to.
17. Mort by Pratchett, my third discworld ...
... interest with the tag Green Dragon so other GDers know what else to look out for.
2) The Hobbit has finally gained the GD tag with 40 copies.
Yeh! How long did that take?!
The Da Vinci Code has overtaken The Hobbit. Nooooooooooooooooooooooooo!
Bumping this thread up, as I'm sure many of us are still reading from the 1001. I finished both The Hobbit and The Fellowship of the Ring. I'm on to The Two Towers as of this morning.
Bumping this thread up, as I'm sure many of us are still reading from the 1001. I finished both The Hobbit and The Fellowship of the Ring. I'm on to The Two Towers as of this morning.
Hmmm...around that age I read Tolkien's The Hobbit and followed up with The Lord of the Rings. I also was reading Edgar Allen Poe & William Shakespeare.
... Birds (definitely not on the Catholic summer reading list).
I don't know if it is considered a classic, but I found The Hobbit more boring than The Pearl, Of Mice and Men, and The Diary of Anne Frank.
I'm still in Middle Earth, but now it's approximately 60 years after the events in The Hobbit. I'm reading J.R.R. Tolkien's The Fellowship of the Ring, being the first part of The Lord of the Rings.
... read "genre" books, that they can have as much literary value as the classics. So I say throw in some Fahrenheit 451 and The Hobbit. Mix it up and see what they go for.
... night during a food fight and kept coming back
Favorite Author: This month it is Sharon Kay Penman
Favorite Books: The Hobbit, Clan of the Cave Bear, Here Be Dragons, Doomsday Book, Where the Red Fern Grows (I still sob at the end of it), and a few others that will pop into my ...
... Philip Pullman
FAVORITE BOOK(s): A Game of Thrones, The Other Boleyn Girl, Eragon, The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit, Wizard's First Rule, Daughter of the Forest
FAVORITE DRINK: A glass of cold coca-cola.
FAVORITE CHEESE: A nice white sharp chedder
FAVOURITE SPELLING OF F ...
... Christie and new fave Brandon Sanderson.
FAVORITE BOOK(s): My favorite all-time books are JRR Tolkein's The Hobbit/Lord of the Rings, Douglas Adams' The Hitch-Hiker's Guide To The Galaxy (the first 4 books of the "trilogy", hee hee) and Stephen King's The Dark Tower. Gee ...
CR: Vampirates by Somper, pretty good story, takes awhile to get going though.
OA: The Hobbit by Tolkien, one I have read several times and thought I would give a listen to. Enjoying as always.
LF2: Mort by Pratchett, not YA, but just discoverd Pratchett and loved it.
... of books shared with another user. The one I just looked at had multiple copies shared of the Lord of the Rings books, The Hobbit, and The Elements of Style. Has anyone else noticed this?
... and a wizard, 61 years prior to the events in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings. I'm, of course, reading The Hobbit. Re-reading, I should say. I first read it nearly 20 years ago.
Currently re-reading J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit for the first time in nearly 20 years. After this I'll read the three volumes of The Lord of the Rings.
... the Rings, Lord of the Flies, 1984, Cry, the Beloved Country, The Little Prince, Their Eyes were Watching God, The Hobbit, The Hound of the Baskervilles, Crime and Punishment, The Scarlet Letter, Jane Eyre, Frankenstein, and Pride and Prejudice.
I'm currently reading ...
#110
It was such a great class. Not only did we read PoA, but also The Hobbit, The Stars My Destination, A Canticle for Lebowitz, and other really great stories in the fantastic literature canon.
Every college should have a genre specific class like that :D.
I heard that Peter Jackson would not be involved in making The Hobbit? Any truth to that rumor? I am in agreement for the most part with the above posts about Peter Jackson's handling of the LOTR series. The first two were respectable. The third... well, I did sit through it.
I, too am ...
... least 1 or 2 big (500+ pages) every month. I'm reading The Road right now, which is fairly short, but I plan to re-read The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings trilogy, followed by Middlesex, so that will cover me for bigger books for a bit. At some point this year, I intend to read Crime ...
I recently finished reading The Hobbit. Though not my normal material, I enjoyed it. I especially liked the way he wrote about the animals and the environment. I have the trilogy to get to, but wanted to take a break.
... were some transitions. I'll wait for the trade paperback, hopefully it will match the spines and covers of the set of The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion I've already got (not the movie covers).
It is odd. Things are out of whack. I just clicked on The Hobbit then on the tag British, then I clicked to see all books tagged British, and looked for the numbers for The Hobbit, and found this:
The Hobbit (79)
not (42) like it says above.
I'm guessing things aren't even updating ...
... not sure if it's server lag, or if, after a certain point, they just don't update the tag info at all.
39 people have The Hobbit tagged as Green Dragon, but when you click on The Hobbit and then click on the tag info you get this:
20th Century(20) adventure(50) british(42) children(41) C ...
... reading of fantasy I think of The Earthsea Trilogy which touches on religion, but it isn't a motivator, and of course The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings, which is simply a battle between good and evil, religion isn't really a factor. I'm not trying to start another religious debate, just ...
My brother made me watch the animated version of The Hobbit with him about a million times when we were kids, so just the thought of it sucks for me. Love the book, but don't ever make me watch that movie.
... my heart. Here I'd been looking forward to sharing all my Anne of Green Gables books with them, my L.M. Alcott books, The Hobbit, Lord of the Rings...you get the idea. Nope they wouldn't have anything to do with it. I never tried bribing, I coaxed, cajoled, read favourite passages out ...
I read The Hobbit and LOTR almost forty years ago, but one part of the trilogy that I come back to time after time is in the appendix at the end of Return of the King.
This particular appendix tells the story of what happened to Samwise Gamgee after the events of the story. It brings me to ...
The Lord of the Rings got me too. I read The Hobbit first and liked its story.
The first LOR was great. The second was not as good and I skipped around liberaly. The third I couldn't finish because I felt like I was in the cave with Monty Python's Quest for the Holy Grail characters ...
... as well - which some of you have said you don't like! Well each to our own. I can say though that I really didn't like The Hobbit and only read it because of The Lord of the Rings.
Atonement really leaves you thinking at the end, Harry Potter even if you hate it has done more for reading ...
... out. Jan Karon I buy hardcover as soon as it comes out. I am still waiting for the proper celebration to buy LOTR and The Hobbit in an excellent hardbound edition. I have bought them for my daughter. I have bought the paperbacks for my son. I want mine. Maybe when my children move out ...
Little Women, Jo is still my hero.
The Hobbit and The Chronicles of Narnia taught me to open my imagination.
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead taught me plays could be hilarious.
A Picture of Dorian Gray was the first high school assigned book I really loved.
Pride and Prejudic ...
I'd go for The Hobbit, Lord of the Rings, and all the Douglas Adams books!
Little Women, The Secret Garden, A tale of Two Cities, The Story Girl, The Hobbit and any thing by C. S. Lewis should be good, but I think I would read Eragon.
... is coming out in 09, some other YA books coming out as movies are His Dark Material, Harry Potter, Narnia, Stardust and The Hobbit to name a few.
I'm currently reading The Terror by Dan Simmons. I'm partway in, and Simmons has only given glimpses of the terror that the men are to frightened of, but the shadows we're given leave you craving for more.
One of the most unforgettable scenes for me for some reason is from The Hobbit. I can always picture in my min's eye Bilbo Baggins down on his hands and knees in Gollum's dark, cold cave coming across that damn ring and shoving it in his pocket as he is scrambling along.
... mes:
~ volumes 1-5 of J.K Rowling's Harry Potter books (five times for the first four, four times for the fifth)
~ The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien (seven times, though I'm not too sure why)
~ Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden (three times)
~ American Gods by Neil Gaiman ...
... Permiso para vivir), or Argentina's Julio Cortázar (e.g. Todos los fuegos el fuego), Manuel Puig (especially El beso de la mujer araña), Adolfo Bioy Casares (La invención de Morel) and Juan Jose Saer (e.g. La pesquisa). All these give an insight into aspects of ...
... with." A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
and the first line which has been quoted many times on this site, from The Hobbit. Someone else type it in, I haven't a copy nearby.
The Medium is the Massage
LOTR+The Hobbit+The Silmarillion
Slaughterhouse Five
The Whole Earth Catalog
On The Road
Bright Lights, Big City
The Catcher in the Rye
Stranger in a Strange Land
Catch-22
Martian Chronicles
I haven't seen the article, but it seems to me ...
... wrong, but I took "trolling" to be a fishing metaphor and not a comparison to creatures from one of my favorite scenes in The Hobbit.
As in...Bagshaw was trolling the waters of the Conservative Group, looking for something to take issue with. There is a historical precedent, after all.
#193 - He's the PERFECT age for The Hobbit. If he likes it enough, he might enjoy LOTR but some of it may be tough to get through. Still, audiowise it shouldn't be as bad as trying to read all of those elvish and dwarvish words, heee heeeee!
I highly recommend the BBC Radio version of LOTR ...
Well, if LOTR is too big a chunk, have her try The Hobbit first.
What about ghost stories? Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural is a humongous (1000 page) collection of great writers' scary stuff.
#193 - I listened to The Hobbit on the radio when I was seven - that was what got me hooked on sf/fantasy in the first place.
My dad started reading Lord of the Rings right after that, and I absolutely LOVED it! So no, I definitely don't think he's too young!
Good to hear he's OK, ...
Certainly not too young for the hobbit. Lord of the rings might be a bit more challenging, I don't think I finished it when I first started it around that age, but it might be easier on audiobook. Tricky to think of suitably long books that will be appreciated that young.
If he's read all ...
... McPhee
2. The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick
3. The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
4. The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
5. The Day of the Jackal by Frederick Forsyth
Current progress:
57/50 (114%)
... Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell - Susanna Clarke
The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien
I've already read:
The Name of the Rose - Umberto Eco
... and .......
Plays are just such a different art form that its very difficult to compare. I saw a theatrical version of the hobbit that was very enjoyable.
There's a specific group about films of books HERE
... I saw the movie before finally reading the book. I find it amazing that Margaret Mitchell never wrote another book.
The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings triology. Didn't everyone who went to high school in the 70s read these? I still find something new or understand something better ...
Well, I just don't get it. there are 33 people who have tagged The Hobbit with Green Dragon, and yet it still does now show up as one of the book's tags. And some of the ones that do show up are used with less frequency. :o(
These all show up:
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... I've added books to my library catalog and, apparently, so have others. So, here's the new statistical breakdown:
#1 - The Hobbit (8879) edged out former #1, 1984
#100 - The Mammoth Hunters (833)
10% - Kim by Kipling (763)
50% - Fires of Winter by Johanna Lindsey (62)
90% - Th ...
... I now often take weeks to read a book I might have in the past finished in a day or two.
Anyway, I finished rereading The Hobbit and am now well into rereading Fellowship of the Ring.
A lot of books already have subtitles which are more or less the same idea.
the Hobbit - There and Back again?
Contact - they're out there somewhere
Lord of the Rings - "Fly you fools!"
This is harder than I first thought.
... describing the North America resulting from a British victory in 1776.
The Silmarillion by J. R. R. Tolkein
I've read The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings.
The Time Ships by Stephen Baxter
I recently read The Time Machine. This is the sequel.
Toast by Charles Stross
Sci-fi ...
I've had very little time to read read, so I've been hitting The Hobbit for the gazillionth time, as well as Book 6 of Harry Potter, and I tried to finish Bridge to Terabithia before we went to see the film, but didn't. (ooops) I felt the need for "familiar".
... much of a romantic though..as we speak, I'm just taking a break from Darkly Dreaming Dexter.
I WILL get on my copy of The Hobbit, just as soon as I get through the box I have coming from Amazon. I'm on the right track though, as I've ALWAYS wanted to live "in" a hill or a hole. Someone ...
Okay, how about if I help you start reading The Hobbit, then?
Chapter 1
AN UNEXPECTED PARTY
In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or ...
I think it's much better now. I solved two problems, the Lint problem and the Hobbit problem. The former was described. The latter was when it gave you some other language of the Hobbit as the main title. The trick is getting it to work with Lint without making it work with the most obscure ...
Well, thanks to you, cad, there are now 23 copies of The Hobbit tagged Green Dragon. But when you view the book info, and you lists the tags by number it still does not show up.
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Embarrased (maybe): I have 5 (five!) different editions of The Hobbit listed in LT. That does not include the ancient copy from 1966 (?) - the first copy I owned and read!
So, I tagged 5 different editions of the Hobbit with "Green Dragon". My personal Tags page immediatelyshowed that ...
I forgot to mention that I tagged The Hobbit too.
#8 My point was lost. Let me try again. :)
The Hobbit and The Silmarillion were written before The Lord of the Rings. So - they fit together nicely as an entire sequence. And the stories are set far apart. All we really know from The Lord of the Rings is that Bilbo got a ring, and ...
#7 - What about The Hobbit and The Silmarillion?
I agree that Star Wars I-III were horrible, but the same fate doesn't have to happen with Ms. Rowling's series.
One thing that would've made the prequels better was to bring back the ships-on-strings. The technology (CGI, I believe, ...
I'm rereading a little something called The Hobbit. Has anyone else heard of this book?
8,145 for The Hobbit and 8,107 for 1984 - the numbers differs between the Zeitgeist and Book-pages - these numbers are from the book pages...
(You know, within the last 24 hours or so, the number of copies of The Hobbit just exceeded the number of copies of 1984....)
I have 3 versions of The Hobbit tagged - a collector's edition, a paperback, and the audio version.
OK, I've two copies tagged Green Dragon - I could not decide on which ;-)
One english - The hobbit and one swedish - Bilbo.
I am Spartacus.
* whoops *
* sorry *
* blush *
I mean... I have tagged The Hobbit.
If you have the book The Hobbit tagged Green Dragon, please post in the thread, so I can count how many of us there are.
The number hasn't changed from 16 since I started checking. :o(
I even added a copy to GreenDragon's library, just to see if the number would go up, and it did not. I ...
... have much of an interest in 'recreational' reading after -- until about age 12 when he picked up the paperback copies of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings his father was reading. His brothers later followed in, and the rest is history.
The tag "tolkein" is, of course, combined in ...
... 2007 & am starting w/the Silmarillion on audio tape. (Read it the old-fashioned-way the first time.) Hope to get through The Hobbit, & The LotR by the end of the year along w/ the other non-Tolkien stuff I'm going to read. I have read Unfinished Tales as well as both volumes of Lost ...
... mine to the items that are tagged BOOK, since I have movies and magazines in my collection as well. :)
Most popular:
The Hobbit, or, There and back again by J.R.R. Tolkien
100th most popular:
The Shunning by Beverly Lewis
10% (#31):
War of the Worlds by Wells
La ...
... Talking to Dragons), Tamora Pierce's Immortals Quartet, Bruce Coville's Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher, and The Hobbit. More recently I've decided I really do like Eragon even though I don't have a very high opinion of it, and that I need to read Eldest. I never seriously got ...
... Ashley
The Catcher in the Rye
The Secret Garden
The Wind and the Willows
Treasure Island
Black Beauty
The Hobbit
Alice in Wonderland
Sula
Around the World in 80 days
Sing-Song
When We Were Very Young
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
Julius Caesar
The Merchan ...
If 16 people have The Hobbit tagged Green Dragon, shouldn't it be showing up by now?
Perhaps there're too many different ISBN's? Just a thought.
If 16 people have The Hobbit tagged Green Dragon, shouldn't it be showing up by now?
Still nothing.
}:o|
Yup, The Hobbit up to 11 now. Still not showing Green Dragon as a tag, though. :o/
Well, 10 of us have tagged The Hobbit, but when you click on it, Green Dragon does not show up as a tag.
:oS
I copied all the tags and numbers, and the lowest I see is (16) tags. Maybe it takes 15...
We need a few more members to tag The Hobbit. *chuckle*
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... The Father Hunt which I've just finished and found to be a good example of a Nero Wolfe story and among others titles got The Hobbit which I definite own (and like). Putting in The Hobbit I got a Sherrilyn Kenyon book which I've had from the public library (and liked well enough to check ...
... I'd forgotten just how the difference in tone between the first and the second was like the difference between The Hobbit and The Fellowship of the Ring.
... be taken as a flame to anyone. "Smith of Wooton Major" and "Farmer Giles of Ham" were the only worthies he did aside from The Hobbit.
So ends my effort tonight. Happy reading, all!
... jacket because I like to know what I'm really holding. :)
Also, I just remembered: When I struck out to buy a copy of The Hobbit, I refused to buy any of the ones in the store because they were all green or black or blue (or paperback, which I definately didn't want for that book). So I ...
... Malleus Maleficarum (fascinating book) is a good thought. But I can't remember anything mentioned in it that shows up in The Hobbit or LOTR.
There is a Witches' Bible (over 100 copies on LT), published way too late to have been seen by Tolkien.
Just added The Last Witchfinder ...
... fantasy as most of you probably are, but here's what my syllabus would be (though not necessarily in this order).
The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe - C.S. Lewis
The Once and Future King - T.H. White
Redwall - Brian Jacques (though ...
Don't have much time for this at the moment, but I have started a library. Three very large editions of The Hobbit sitting around a very large shelf made of beech logs.
#1 The Hobbit. 6916 users
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My 90% is within my singlets list.
The first listed of 211 singlets, Islamic syncretism in Indonesia ...
The Marvellous Land of Snergs by E. A. Wyke-Smith, cited by J.R.R. Tolkien as an inspiration for The Hobbit.
It's a cute children's adventure story. The tone is pretty much similar to The Hobbit. It dishes a good dose of humor now and then. Enjoyable enough. =) I'm halfway ...
Most popular: The Hobbit, 6,852 copies
100th: Witches Abroad, Terry Pratchett, 1,198 copies
10% from top (#301): An Artist of the Floating World, Kazuo Ishiguro, 318 copies
50% (#1,524): Nathaniel Hawthorne in His Times, James R. Mellow, 9 copies
I have 684 not shared.
I ...
... Stone but with this HUGE caveat. The tone of writing between this, and the rest of the series, is similar to that between The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. So as long as we all go in knowing we are reading a mediocre to pretty good childrens story, which is followed by a quite ...
... could work. I'm a fan of Hexwood, although that borders on SF in places), Earthsea (again) and, from the Tolkien works, The Hobbit is probably the easiest for unsure readers to break into, and has the bonus feature of leading straight into The Lord of the Rings if they like it.
I thought I was in a minority with The Hobbit, it was a prescribed text in my second year of high school (nothing kills literature deader than having to read it and write about it when you are a maths/science type student). I always assumed that the reason I never read Lord of the Rings when ...
... to reading an encyclopedia: good for brief lookups, but not necessarily interesting in the long haul. That said, I do enjoy The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings series.
I subscribed to that fairy magazine, and had them start the subscription with that issue. I don't remember the URL for the ...
... waist my time on the book), To Kill a Mockingbird (Looking forward to renting the movie), and currently listening to The Hobbit. I listened to this one before, but couldn't get into it. Now that I've seen the Lord of the Rings movies, I can visualize what's going on.
... Christmas. I just didn't know it before, as they hadn't arrived yet.
I received a 4-box Ballantine paperback edition of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings - in the red slipcovers, circa 1973, from a friend who knew mine had been lost in a move.
What the friend who sent me these didn't ...
I've just begun my seventh reading of The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien. While I always enjoy this book, I have no idea why I've read it six times; it's nowhere near one of my favourites, and I usually don't read books more than two or three times unless they're quite important to me. Hmm. The ...
... times already. She's on my Five-Authors-I'd-Pay-to-See list.
I have also reread The Lord of the Rings trilogy (and The Hobbit) several times, but hands down, the winner is both trilogies from The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant by Stephen R. Donaldson. I'm currently in my 8th ...
... But one can certainly tell what are my favourite books (I'm on my third edition of The Lord of the Rings and fourth of The Hobbit. I have learned not to be judgemental about peoples reading habits - in my youth I used to be such a book snob! Now I just delight in anyone that reads!! That' ...
... until present) is 1967--and my ancient copies are not in yet.
Still to be entered : i.a. Nineteen Eighty-Four, The Hobbit, Brave new world and Animal Farm, and some dozens of books by Goethe (in German), as well as, hmm, thousands of, hmm, more obscure books--with ...
... Sword of Shannara, and when I was done I was like, "OMG, this is the best everz!!!!" Then I followed it up with The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings trilogy and I was like, "Oh. That was much better."
... reading a book I borrowed from a friend: Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie.
And I'm 'rereading' The Hobbit via audiobook.
By this weekend, I'm thinking of cracking open Curse of The Bane by Joseph Delaney.
I wouldn't go with The Hobbit myself - most everyone I've known who's liked Tolkien didn't like the Hobbit half as much. I know that for me and one of my friends, we had to skip it altogether and found it much easier to just start off with The Lord of the Rings and come back around to it.
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I hated Ella Enchanted the movie. Great kids' book, terrible, terrible movie. The adaptation of the Hobbit has to up there, although it's pretty fun to watch in a Mystery Science Theatre 3000 way, making fun of it (I mean, just look at Thranduil!) I also hated the Jim Carrey How the Grinch Sto ...
But you might be right. Maybe she's reading The Hobbit...
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
333 pages / 1937 (2001) / 5 stars / Fantasy / 7-31-2008
Realistically, what more could be said about The Hobbit that hasn't been said before? J.R. ...