The Hobbit

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Summary: The book even Saddam-Hussein would love!
Review: If I would have to wait 1000 years in a Sarlacc pit monster (Star Wars:Return of the Jedi), spend another 1000 years in an antibomb bunker and await underground for the seas to return to their places the book I would take with me would be without doubt "The Hobbit"

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Summary: Gee Whiz
Review: From a Letter to JRR Tolkien's son Christopher (JRRT, Letters #87):

Dear Mr Tolkien, I have just finished reading your book The Hobbit for the 11th time and I want to tell you what I think of it. I think it is the most wonderful book I have ever read. It is beyond description... Gee Whiz, I am surprised that it's not more popular...If you have written any other books, would you please send me their names?

John Barrow, 12 yrs., West Town PA.

I thought these extracts from a letter I got yesterday would amuse you. I find these letters which I still occassionally get (apart from the smell of incense which fallen man can never quite fail to savour) make me rather sad. What thousands of grains of good human corn must fall on barren, stony ground, if such a very small drop of water should be so intoxicating! But I suppose one should be grateful for the grace and fortune that have allowed me to provide evn the drop. God bless you beloved. Do you think The Ring will come off, and reach the thirsty?

Your own Father.

P.S. It's nice to find that little American boys do really say "Gee Whiz".

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Summary: The best book ever written
Review: This is the best book I've ever read. Tolkien wrote a awesome book. If I had to float around in space for 10,000 years and could only take one book I'd definitely pick The Hobbit

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Summary: best book in the world
Review: 1000% grea

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Summary: JRR TOLKIEN IS BEST
Review: The Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings remain unsurpassed as the best fantasty books ever written. Tolkien is captivating and his style is simple yet superior to any author at any tim

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Summary: This book is great!
Review: This is absolutely one of the best books I've ever read. The power of imagination in Tolkien is suberb. He is most original. I would love to read every word he wrote.

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Summary: the hobbit
Review: This book is just amazing.In it,a dragon called smaug steals avast amount of treasure owned by the dwarves.So one morning Gandalfthe wizard comes to Bilbo Baggins the hobbit's home and talks Bilbo into inviting him to tea. Next day Gandalf doesn't turn up but a band of dwarves do. Gandalf turns up when all thirteen dwarves have come. Soon Bilbo has to go on a journey with the dwarves and Gandalf to kill Smaug and get the treasure. He meets a creature called Gollum and gets a ring from him (you will see how important that is when you read the Lord of the Rings). Barry (aged 8)

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Summary: A True Fairy Tale as Fairy Tales were Meant to Be.
Review: This classic tale brings to life the true essence of fairy tales. It is written as a historical novel based on a world not unlike our own. A world with magic, wisdom, power and a knowlege of right and wrong. Check it out!

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Summary: The tale that inspired "cuddling up" with a good book
Review: I first read it when I was 8, and I have read it countless times since then. Now at the age of 40, I still find it a wonderful book to enjoy on a Sunday by the fire, or on a long train ride. It is a story of heroism, goblins, wizards, and the magic that lies in the smallest of people, and we have all felt small at one time or another. I highly recommend the purchase of a hardback and a paperback since you will loan it to others and it will surely not come back.

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Summary: An amazing work by the master of written English
Review: This book is the first long book of fantasy that I ever read, not until later was I able to find its successor, the Lord of Rings, and until that that this book, thin in size, and yet containing the fires of my young impassioned imagination, saw me through times both sad and joyous, and now looking back upon it see the child I once was. More serious tales there are to be had, but every now and then when a little flippary is needed this one suits the bill.
A child's story written by a Professor of Oxford University, this work contains the foundation for almost all modern fantasy, from its desciption of orcs and goblins, to the landscapes of the world, this is the starting gate, that loosed the flood upon our world.