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The Hobbit, or There and Back Again is a children's fantasy novel by the English author J. R. R. Tolkien.It was published in 1937 to wide critical acclaim, being nominated for the Carnegie Medal and awarded a prize from the New York Herald Tribune for best juvenile fiction.
Although he regarded himself as an amateur, the publisher used the author's own cover art, his maps, and full-page illustrations for the early editions of The Hobbit. He prepared maps and illustrations for The Lord of the Rings , but the first edition contained only the maps, his calligraphy for the inscription on the One Ring, and his ink ...
hobbit: Center of title page shows a bowing hobbit emblem. flautist: Center of title page shows a seated flautist emblem. half-title none: Volume has no half-title page. present: Volume has a half-title page. binding book cloth A: Yellowish-tan with slight greenish cast. Even color, tight weave in both directions.
The Hobbit calls him an elf-friend rather than an elf, one "who had both elves and heroes of the North for ancestors." [T 9] The Elvenking, king of the Mirkwood Elves. He held the dwarves captive. They were eventually freed by Bilbo. [T 10] (In The Hobbit he is only called "the Elvenking"; his name "Thranduil" is given in The Lord of the Rings ...
J. R. R. Tolkien accompanied his Middle-earth fantasy writings with a wide variety of non-narrative materials, including paintings and drawings, calligraphy, and maps.In his lifetime, some of his artworks were included in his novels The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings; others were used on the covers of different editions of these books, and later on the cover of The Silmarillion.
A chapter covers regional maps, and a short chapter focuses on The Hobbit. [11] A major chapter follows the action in The Lord of the Rings. [12] The book ends with a chapter of thematic maps, illustrating the landforms, climate, vegetation, population, and languages of Middle-earth. [13]
This category covers the media franchise based on The Hobbit, a 1937 fantasy novel and children's book by English author J. R. R. Tolkien. The story is entirely set in the Third Age, covering the year 2941. The events are set 77 years before the main events of the sequel, The Lord of the Rings. Tolkien estimated the time between the destruction ...
The Annotated Hobbit: The Hobbit, or There and Back Again is an edition of J. R. R. Tolkien's novel The Hobbit with a commentary by Douglas A. Anderson.It was first published in 1988 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Boston, in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the first American publication of The Hobbit, and by Unwin Hyman of London.