Review: The Hobbit by J.R.R.Tolkien

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The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien is an adventure novel about a quite normal creature widely known as a hobbit by the name of Bilbo Baggins leaving the comforts of his home under the hill at Bag End with a wizard known as Gandalf and thirteen dwarves to the Lonely Mountain of the great dragon Smaug who had nearly extinguished the dwarvish civilization and taken all of its wealth and stayed in his cave for many a year. The dwarves wanted to take back the treasure that Smaug had stolen from their ancestors. The company of fifteen go on many journeys and encounter goblins, wolves, eagles, bears, elves, and even men before they reach the Lonely Mountain of Smaug. They manage to enrage him and he goes to the town of the men to prove who is the real king under the mountain. He is then killed by Bard the Bowman, the descendant of the great king Girion. There is then a battle over the treasure with Bilbo and the dwarves on one side and the elves and the men of the town of Esgaroth in which Bard lives. When the goblins and wolves arrive to seize the treasure, it turns into a battle of five armies, with the dwarves, men, and elves on one side and the goblins and wolves on the other. The dwarves are victorious but at a cost. Thorin, Kili, and Fili are killed in the battle. Frodo then wishes to return home back to Bag End. He settles down quietly into his home and never goes out again.

The Hobbit is a great book filled with twist and turns that make it very interesting. It is a classic novel and will be told forever. I highly recommend it to anybody who has doubts or has avoided buying this book in fear of what it holds. It is a great book and shows that a random nobody from nowhere, which essentially is what Bilbo is, can be a hero of the story. And here we are, at the end of one story and transitioning to the next. Goodbye, O faithful readers, and I will see you again when Smaug rises from death and lays waste to the mountain of the dwarves where Thorin the son of Thrain who was the son of Thror the great King under the mountain lies.