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The Hobbit, or There and Back Again is a children's fantasy novel by 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.
Bilbo Baggins (Westron: Bilba Labingi) is the title character and protagonist of J. R. R. Tolkien's 1937 novel The Hobbit, a supporting character in The Lord of the Rings, and the fictional narrator (along with Frodo Baggins) of many of Tolkien's Middle-earth writings.
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 ...
1974 Bilbo's Last Song; 1975 "Guide to the Names in The Lord of the Rings" (edited version) published in A Tolkien Compass by Jared Lobdell.Written by Tolkien for use by translators of The Lord of the Rings, a full version, re-titled "Nomenclature of The Lord of the Rings," was published in 2005 in The Lord of the Rings: A Reader's Companion by Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull
Andy Serkis is taking part in the ambitious 12-hour challenge to raise money for a pair of charities during the coronavirus lockdown.
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was born on 3 January 1892 in Bloemfontein in the Orange Free State (later annexed by the British Empire; now Free State Province in the Republic of South Africa), to Arthur Reuel Tolkien (1857–1896), an English bank manager, and his wife Mabel, née Suffield (1870–1904). The couple had left England when Arthur was ...
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey is a 2012 epic high fantasy adventure film directed by Peter Jackson from a screenplay by Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens, Jackson, and Guillermo del Toro. It is based on the 1937 novel The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien. The Hobbit trilogy is the first instalment in acting as a prequel to Jackson's The Lord of the ...
The book examines in turn The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, The Silmarillion, and Tolkien's shorter works. [ S 1 ] On The Hobbit , Shippey tells how Tolkien came to start to write; its connection to his First World War experience; the possible origins of the word hobbit , and its parallels with "rabbit"; Bilbo 's riddle-contest with Gollum ...
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