The Hobbit {abridged audio recording}
by J. R. R. Tolkien
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Bilbo Baggins enjoys a quiet and contented life, with no desire to travel far from the comforts of home. Then one day, the wizard Gandalf and a band of dwarves arrive unexpectedly and enlist his services as a burglar. Bilbo's life is never the same again.Tags
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This is a fantastic thriller book which is enticing to read. It carries many unsuspected events with thrills which run up your spine. Don’t judge this book by its cover as it is an amazing book to read. It centers around a hobbit (Hobbits are sized around the waists of average men.) named Bilbo Baggins. He lives in a little and comfortable hobbit hole which is a hole in Hobbiton, The Shire. He has 2 breakfasts everyday but loves to have a nice smoke on his pipe every now and then.
He has perfect little days with visitors coming in and out of his hobbit hole but this all changed when one day, when an old man knocked on his front door. Through the man’s friendly soul, he forces Bilbo Baggins on a once in a lifetime adventure, even show more though Bilbo’s family background is a more elegant and non – adventuring one. Through this journey Bilbo has to take vital decisions just to stay alive. To me, this is a descriptive book which sucks you in to an entirely different world. I recommend this book for ages 10 and over as it would be harder and longer to read for those under that age. It is also the case as some readers may be intimidated by some parts of the book. I think this is an awesome book to read which entices our reading personality.
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He has perfect little days with visitors coming in and out of his hobbit hole but this all changed when one day, when an old man knocked on his front door. Through the man’s friendly soul, he forces Bilbo Baggins on a once in a lifetime adventure, even show more though Bilbo’s family background is a more elegant and non – adventuring one. Through this journey Bilbo has to take vital decisions just to stay alive. To me, this is a descriptive book which sucks you in to an entirely different world. I recommend this book for ages 10 and over as it would be harder and longer to read for those under that age. It is also the case as some readers may be intimidated by some parts of the book. I think this is an awesome book to read which entices our reading personality.
By Samuel.V show less
Several stage adaptations of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit have been created, with some notable productions including a musical version by New College School in 1967 and a dramatic adaptation by Patricia Gray in 1968, which received Tolkien's authorization. This version, authorized by Tolkien, included significant changes to the plot, such as giving Thorin the role of the dragon-slayer.
"O Hobbit" é um romance de fantasia que serve como introdução ao mundo da Terra-média e antecede os eventos de "O Senhor dos Anéis". O enredo acompanha a saga do pacato e caseiro Bilbo Bolseiro, do povo hobbit , que é convocado pelo mago Gandalf e um grupo de anões para ajudá-los a recuperar o tesouro roubado pelo temível dragão Smaug. Repleta de show more aventura e humor, a narrativa, envolvendo temas como coragem, amizade e a luta contra o mal, tornou-se um clássico atemporal da literatura de fantasia. show less
"O Hobbit" é um romance de fantasia que serve como introdução ao mundo da Terra-média e antecede os eventos de "O Senhor dos Anéis". O enredo acompanha a saga do pacato e caseiro Bilbo Bolseiro, do povo hobbit , que é convocado pelo mago Gandalf e um grupo de anões para ajudá-los a recuperar o tesouro roubado pelo temível dragão Smaug. Repleta de show more aventura e humor, a narrativa, envolvendo temas como coragem, amizade e a luta contra o mal, tornou-se um clássico atemporal da literatura de fantasia. show less
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A writer of fantasies, Tolkien, a professor of language and literature at Oxford University, was always intrigued by early English and the imaginative use of language. In his greatest story, the trilogy The Lord of the Rings (1954--56), Tolkien invented a language with vocabulary, grammar, syntax, even poetry of its own. Though readers have show more created various possible allegorical interpretations, Tolkien has said: "It is not about anything but itself. (Certainly it has no allegorical intentions, general, particular or topical, moral, religious or political.)" In The Adventures of Tom Bombadil (1962), Tolkien tells the story of the "master of wood, water, and hill," a jolly teller of tales and singer of songs, one of the multitude of characters in his romance, saga, epic, or fairy tales about his country of the Hobbits. Tolkien was also a formidable medieval scholar, as evidenced by his work, Beowulf: The Monster and the Critics (1936) and his edition of Anciene Wisse: English Text of the Anciene Riwle. Among his works published posthumously, are The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún and The Fall of Arthur, which was edited by his son, Christopher. In 2013, his title, TheHobbit (Movie Tie-In) made The New York Times Best Seller List. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Canonical title
- The Hobbit {abridged audio recording}
- Original title
- The Hobbit or there and back again
- Original publication date
- 1974
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- Please do not combine this abridgement with full-length, unabridged versions of this work.
This is an abridged version of The Hobbit. Please do not combine with the original version.
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