... 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).
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. ...