HOBBIT EB
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HOBBIT EB

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About this book

For the first time ever, a special enhanced edition of the enchanting prelude to The Lord of the Rings, illustrated throughout with 50 sketches, drawings, paintings and maps by J.R.R. Tolkien himself.

Bilbo Baggins is a hobbit who enjoys a comfortable, unambitious life, rarely travelling further than the pantry of his hobbit-hole in Bag End. But his contentment is disturbed when the wizard, Gandalf, and a company of thirteen dwarves arrive on his doorstep one day to whisk him away on an unexpected journey 'there and back again'. They have a plot to raid the treasure hoard of Smaug the Magnificent, a large and very dangerous dragon…

Written for J.R.R. Tolkien's own children, The Hobbit was published on 21 September 1937. With a beautiful cover design, a handful of black & white drawings and two maps by the author himself, the book became an instant success and was reprinted shortly afterwards with five colour plates.

Tolkien's own selection of finished paintings and drawings have become inseparable from his text, adorning editions of The Hobbit for more than 85 years. But the published art has afforded only a glimpse of Tolkien's creative process, and many additional sketches, coloured drawings and maps – although exhibited and published elsewhere – have never appeared within the pages of The Hobbit.

In this unique enhanced edition of Tolkien's enchanting classic tale, the full panoply of his art is reproduced for the first time, presenting a grand total of 50 illustrations to accompany Bilbo Baggins on his adventure 'there and back again'.

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Table of contents

  1. TITLE PAGE
  2. COPYRIGHT
  3. NOTE TO READERS
  4. TABLE OF CONTENTS
  5. LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
  6. NOTE
  7. FOREWORD TO THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION
  8. NOTE ON THE ILLUSTRATIONS
  9. AUTHOR’S NOTE
  10. CHAPTER I: AN UNEXPECTED PARTY
  11. CHAPTER II: ROAST MUTTON
  12. CHAPTER III: A SHORT REST
  13. CHAPTER IV: OVER HILL AND UNDER HILL
  14. CHAPTER V: RIDDLES IN THE DARK
  15. CHAPTER VI: OUT OF THE FRYING-PAN INTO THE FIRE
  16. CHAPTER VII: QUEER LODGINGS
  17. CHAPTER VIII: FLIES AND SPIDERS
  18. CHAPTER IX: BARRELS OUT OF BOND
  19. CHAPTER X: A WARM WELCOME
  20. CHAPTER XI: ON THE DOORSTEP
  21. CHAPTER XII: INSIDE INFORMATION
  22. CHAPTER XIII: NOT AT HOME
  23. CHAPTER XIV: FIRE AND WATER
  24. CHAPTER XV: THE GATHERING OF THE CLOUDS
  25. CHAPTER XVI: A THIEF IN THE NIGHT
  26. CHAPTER XVII: THE CLOUDS BURST
  27. CHAPTER XVIII: THE RETURN JOURNEY
  28. CHAPTER XIX: THE LAST STAGE
  29. KEEP READING
  30. WORKS BY J.R.R. TOLKIEN
  31. ABOUT THE PUBLISHER