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Loading... The Hobbit: A Graphic Novelby J. R. R. Tolkien
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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book.  janetvisser | Nov 11, 2009 |  This is a simply stunning graphic adaptation of The Hobbit. Any Tolkien fan will thoroughly enjoy Wenzel's breathtaking illustrations. Every page is a visual treat! (  ) TheMadTurtle | Jun 25, 2009 | The Hobbit is a great novel about a hobbit named Bilbo Baggins and his adveture with 13 dwarves . The plot is about a hobbit who gets asked to go and find a lot of treausure guarded by a fearce dragon named Smaug.They have a few encounters on the way but nothing could compare to Smaug.This amazing story is written by J.R.R Tolken. The Hobbit is a great book and hasa great story for the great book.Its a great action adventure book (although it doesnt start like it) thats great for all ages (if you can read novels) and its worth reading again. (  ) AwsomeGuy | May 29, 2009 | Ever since my teens, I have been an avid reader of fantasy novels. And the granddaddy of the genre is J.R.R. Tolkien. Sadly, I have never been able to actually finish one of his novels (in fact, I started The Hobbit at least twice). While his storylines are always fascinating and his characters are iconic, I find his prose style to be overwrought and inaccessible. For this reason, I was excited to see a graphic novel interpretation of The Hobbit. I thought that format would be an excellent way to convey the adventure without getting bogged down in the prose. I was not disappointed. The story was as exciting as I have always heard it was and the artwork was beautiful. I am so glad I now know the story of The Hobbit and can understand it’s place within the framework of the history of the fantasy genre. 1  swelldame | May 14, 2007 | 
In the Hobbit we get as close I think as possible to the roots of the Fantasy genre without going back to the original myths, and epic poems, and legends themselves. What were stock charachters and plots are new and fresh ideas.
Amazon.com (ISBN 0345445600, Paperback)"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 to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort."The hobbit-hole in question belongs to one Bilbo Baggins, an upstanding member of a "little people, about half our height, and smaller than the bearded dwarves." He is, like most of his kind, well off, well fed, and best pleased when sitting by his own fire with a pipe, a glass of good beer, and a meal to look forward to. Certainly this particular hobbit is the last person one would expect to see set off on a hazardous journey; indeed, when Gandalf the Grey stops by one morning, "looking for someone to share in an adventure," Baggins fervently wishes the wizard elsewhere. No such luck, however; soon 13 fortune-seeking dwarves have arrived on the hobbit's doorstep in search of a burglar, and before he can even grab his hat or an umbrella, Bilbo Baggins is swept out his door and into a dangerous adventure. The dwarves' goal is to return to their ancestral home in the Lonely Mountains and reclaim a stolen fortune from the dragon Smaug. Along the way, they and their reluctant companion meet giant spiders, hostile elves, ravening wolves--and, most perilous of all, a subterranean creature named Gollum from whom Bilbo wins a magical ring in a riddling contest. It is from this life-or-death game in the dark that J.R.R. Tolkien's masterwork, The Lord of the Rings, would eventually spring. Though The Hobbit is lighter in tone than the trilogy that follows, it has, like Bilbo Baggins himself, unexpected iron at its core. Don't be fooled by its fairy-tale demeanor; this is very much a story for adults, though older children will enjoy it, too. By the time Bilbo returns to his comfortable hobbit-hole, he is a different person altogether, well primed for the bigger adventures to come--and so is the reader. --Alix Wilber (retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:09 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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The full color illustrations are beautiful animations with lots of detail and imagination. They give a three-dimensional feel to the story and do a great job of bringing Tolkien's characters and world of Middle Earth to life.
The story has been simplified to suit the format which makes it seem choppy at times. Although the comic book feel and easy-read language will make "The Hobbit" accessible to young readers, the detail and description of Bilbo's adventures are missing. Only his underground encounter with Gollum and the riddle game they play is portrayed in any depth. There is much more to this story that will be missed if readers are only familiar with the graphic novel version.
Author J.R.R. Tolkien was a professor at Oxford who, although he published several books throughout his career, is best known for "The Hobbit" and the trilogy "Lord of the Rings".
His book was adapted by Charles Dixon, a comic book author who has produced original stories for many major comics companies, as well as various children's books for Golden Books and Walt Disney.
Illustrator David Wenzel is a highly regarded artist who has contributed to a number of children's books and comics. He is best known for his work on "The Hobbit". (