|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Show more editions and formats
Show fewer editions and formatsBetter Together
Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought
The Lord of the Rings. 3 Vol. Set by J.R.R. Tolkien  (1,001)
$23.10
|
The Two Towers (The Lord of the Rings, Book 2) by J.R.R. Tolkien (361)
$31.49
|
The Return of the King (The Lord of the Rings, Book 3) by J.R.R. Tolkien (256)
$31.49
|
The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien (65)
$23.10
|
The Lord of the Rings: 50th Anniversary, One Vol. Edition by J.R.R. Tolkien (34)
$13.60
|
"In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort."
The hobbit-hole in question belongs to one Bilbo Baggins, an upstanding member of a "little people, about half our height, and smaller than the bearded dwarves." He is, like most of his kind, well off, well fed, and best pleased when sitting by his own fire with a pipe, a glass of good beer, and a meal to look forward to. Certainly this particular hobbit is the last person one would expect to see set off on a hazardous journey; indeed, when Gandalf the Grey stops by one morning, "looking for someone to share in an adventure," Baggins fervently wishes the wizard