Rating: 
Summary: Good, but not great.
Review: I guess I am one of the few, very few apparently, who was not blown away by THE HOBBIT. While the story itself is fun and adventurous, I was let down by the telling of the story. While I felt the ending was much better than the begining, the Narrator just got on my nerves. Everytime the story got interesting and exciting, this voice would come out of nowhere and say something like, "This was not the last time that Bilbo would use his sword Sting, but that is something you will hear about later." I know that exact line was never written, but stuff like it certainly was. I just think you shouldn't have to be told what will happen later so bluntly. Maybe a subteler form of foreshadowing is needed, or maybe I am just overly sensitive. In any case it was a good story, but not great.
Rating: 
Summary: FASCINATING AND FANTASTIC
Review: This is an amazing story, a true classic about hobbit Bilbo Baggins being recruited by wizard Gandalf to accompany a band of dwarves across treacherous terrain to do battle with a mighty dragon, Smaug, who had destroyed a small city and claimed it;s treasure. One of the dwarves, Thorin, was a descendant of a dwarf king of the city destroyed. There are encounters with giant spiders, trolls, wolves and goblins as well as a journey up a river in wine barrels! The goblins do battle with the elves, dwrves and men for possesion of lands shortly after the death of Smaug. The conclusion is to an extent sad, but staisfying. Several years ago here in Melbourne, there was a play about the hobbit featuring both puppets and peo0le.
Rating:
Summary: A classic
Review: I personally found this book more interesting than The Lord Of The Rings. His book is the prequel to it. It tells how Bilbo got the ring,his history with Gandalf, how he got the mail and where he found Sting and how it was named. Also, his encounters with drarwes, men, elves and a dragon called Smaug. If you read LOTR read The Hobbit. It is an amazing book. I recommend this book to all ages.
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Summary: Now This Is More Like It
Review: I was introduced to the works of JRR Tolkien by the movie. Needless to say I hated it. I thought it was just a rambling mess with too many extreme closeups, too many far shots and shallow characters. It was also 3 hours long and I felt like killing myself to end the madness. I recieved the trilogy for christmas and I figured that the books were better than the movie. Well they were a lot better, but were kind of boring and drawn out. But then I decided to read the Hobbit, and finally I was impressed. This, in my opinion is where anyone who is reading Tolkien should start out.
This book is fairly easy reading and fairly lighthearted. It is written with much more excitement than the LOTR and as a result is much more suspensful. I actually felt tense when the wolves were attacking the company.
Though the language is not as polished as in the LOTR, Tolkien makes up for in character development and plot.
Well anyway, I feel this deserves every bit a five star rating. It was exciting, fast paced and wasn't boged down with page after page of meaningless description. So I guess Tolkien was a good writer after all, it surpised me to find out.
Rating:
Summary: The Hobbit-My review
Review: This is the first book I read that was by Tolkien. I thought it was fantastic. I got it for my late birthday present from my Dad. He suggested I get this one before The Lord of the Rings. I don't suggest anyone reading this if you are under your teenage years. It is a very difficult book to read if you are young (that is why they have cliff-notes for it) So this is what I say, if you like Fantasy and you like Tolkien, buy it, if you don't like Fantasy and you think Tolkien is a terrible writer (which I do not agree with), then don't buy it. I give this five stars because it is my favorite book of all time, because I think Fantasy is great.
Rating:
Summary: Tolkien's Best
Review: While it's obvious and easy to say Lord of the Rings is Tolkien's best work, I'll have to say otherwise. Rings is probably the greatest epic novel ever written, but The Hobbit touches me more closely. One should never read LOTR without having read the Hobbit first, afterall it is the first book and sets up a lot of the action that will follow. It's a great quick read, running only around 320 pages compared to Rings' 1500 or so. I highly recommend it to anyone.
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Summary: Welcome to Middle Earth
Review: "The Hobbit" by J.R.R. Tolkien is the fantasy epic that started the fantasy genre altogether. Tolkien is a master of the English language and his wonderful writing and beautiful world make one of the best novels of fantasy literature. For those who are not familiar with this tale, it is the story of Bilbo Baggins and a band of dwarves that set out on an adventure to the Lonely Mountain to reclaim the treasure of an old Dwarve civilization. Along the way we run into goblins, elves, giant spiders and much more intrigue. I recommend this novel to any lover of fantasy or books in general. This is the book that put me onto the fantasy genre. Tolkien makes Middle Earth seem like it's a real place with the depth that he goes into with each race of species living there. After this wonderful novel I recommend the granddaddy of all fantasy, The Lord of the Rings. Be sure to pick up this great novel. HAPPY READING!
Rating:
Summary: Written for children, but still great.
Review: This novel lacks much of the complexity and subtlety of LoTR, but it is still a great novel in its own respect.
Rating:
Summary: There and Back Again
Review: I gave this book 5 stars because that was as many as I could give. If I could give more I would! This is an entertaining, captivating and imaginative book. Tolkein creates a magical world where you feel that anything can happen (which in all truth could)and the characters he makes are both lovable (Bilbo)and despisable (e.g.Smaug). For people who love fantasy, this is the best in that context that I have ever read, save a few other well known books by the same author. I don't believe that anyone has not heard of Tolkien by now, either because of the movie Lord of the Rings or because of his reputable books. In either case, those who have not read this book (and also The Lord of The Rings series, which is a sequel of sorts to The Hobbit)READ IT NOW!!!Don't be among the minority. You won't regret it, I promise.
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Summary: The hobbit
Review: I read the hobbit in about 2 weeks. it is the best book
I have ever read. It all starts out in a hobbit hole.
Until a wizard named Gandalf comes over to Bilbo's
(the hobbit.) house. He asked him if he wanted to go on
a jouney to find a dragon named Smaug. But Bilbo refuses.
So Gandalf brings alot of dwarves over to have a party.
at Bilbo's house. So that way they wil stay there until
Bilbo obey's them. So Bilbo goes with them on there journey.
While they're on there way they run into some trolls. Oh I
forgot. Bilbo is known as a burgler. Anyway. Bilbo finds a
wallet. But it turns out to be one of the trolls wallets. They
find Bilbo with it. so they take him and all but 1 dwarf captive.
But Bilbo makes them fight so that they can escape. They got away.Then they go into a troll home. they find swords and different wepons. They try and find a shelter to sleep in. But
when they got into it a bunch of trolls catch the dwarves. But
they don't catch Gandalf. The trolls show the hobbit and the
dwarves to there king. Gandalf comes in the room and kills the
trolls. As they're running away from the mountain Dori ( a dwarf.) who is carrying Bilbo drops him. Bilbo wakes up next to
a guy named Gollum. He said he will let bilbo go if he answers
a riddle correct. So Gollum asks Bilbo a bunch of questions. It
takes Bilbo a while to guess the right answer. When he lets
Bilbo go he finds a ring.They go to a guy named Beorn. He lets
them stay for a day and then let them be on there journey.
The hobbit, Gandalf, and the dwarves go to the woods. Gandalf
leaves the dwarves. Some Elves capture the dwarves. But Bilbo
has on is ring. It makes him invisible. The Elves lock up the
Dwarves. But Bilbo lets them free. They ride some barrles down
a river. They end up on the doorstep of Smaug. They run into
a cave so smaug won't find them. They escape while Smaug is asleep. But Smaug wakes up. He goes to a town. A man named Bard
Shoots him with a bow a arrow. Now, back to the dwarves a Bilbo.
A little before the end Gandalf comes back. Well I can't tell
you the end because this is an online review. I highly recommend
this book.
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