The Hobbit

Bilbo Baggins enjoys a quiet and contented life with no desire to travel far
from the comforts of home; then one day the wizard Gandalf and a band of dwarves
arrive unexpectedly and enlist his services – as a burglar – on a dangerous
expedition to raid the treasure-hoard of Smaug the dragon. Bilbo’s life is never
to be the same again.
THE HOBBIT became an instant success when it was first published in 1937, and
more than fifty years later Tolkien’s epic tale of elves, dwarves, trolls, goblins,
myth, magic and adventure, with its reluctant hero Bilbo Baggins, has lost none
of its appeal.