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  2. The Annotated Hobbit - Wikipedia

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    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.

  3. English-language editions of The Hobbit - Wikipedia

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    Inside rear cover (endpaper 2) is the Map of Wilderland in blue ink. Preface is excerpted from the forward to The Hobbit 50th Anniversary Edition by Christopher Tolkien published in 1987. Notes on the text by Douglas A. Anderson from 2001. Chapter 1 of The Fellowship of the Ring, "A Long-Expected Party", appears as an appendix.

  4. The Hobbit - Wikipedia

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    The Hobbit is set in Middle-earth and follows home-loving Bilbo Baggins, the hobbit of the title, who joins the wizard Gandalf and the thirteen dwarves of Thorin's Company, on a quest to reclaim the dwarves' home and treasure from the dragon Smaug. Bilbo's journey takes him from his peaceful rural surroundings into more sinister territory.

  5. The Hobbit (film series) - Wikipedia

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    Although The Hobbit was originally made as a two-part film, on 30 July 2012, Jackson confirmed plans for a third film, turning his adaptation of The Hobbit into a trilogy. [ 99 ] [ 100 ] According to Jackson, the third film would make extensive use of the appendices that Tolkien wrote to support the story of The Lord of the Rings (published in ...

  6. Lonely Mountain - Wikipedia

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    The Hobbit enters the mountain and steals a golden cup. [2] [T 4] [T 5] Smaug, enraged by the theft, emerges from the mountain and flies south to destroy Lake-town, which he suspects is the source of the "thieves". During this attack Smaug is killed by Bard the Bowman; Thorin claims the mountain on learning of Smaug's demise.

  7. The Atlas of Middle-earth - Wikipedia

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    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]

  8. Hobbit - Wikipedia

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    Hobbits first appeared in the 1937 children's novel The Hobbit, whose titular Hobbit is the protagonist Bilbo Baggins, who is thrown into an unexpected adventure involving a dragon. In its sequel, The Lord of the Rings , the hobbits Frodo Baggins , Sam Gamgee , Pippin Took , and Merry Brandybuck are primary characters who all play key roles in ...

  9. Red Book of Westmarch - Wikipedia

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    The "found manuscript conceit", [1] employed by Tolkien to situate The Hobbit as a part of The Red Book of Westmarch, has been used in English literature since Samuel Richardson's novels Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded (1740) and Clarissa; or, The History of a Young Lady (1747–1748); Tolkien used it also in his incomplete time travel novel, The ...