The Hobbit

"Bilbo Baggins is a hobbit who enjoys acomfortable, unambitious life, rarely travellingfurther than the pantry of his hobbit-hole in BagEnd.But his contentment is disturbed when thewizard, Gandalf, and a company of 13 dwarvesarrive on his doorstep one day to whisk himaway on an unexpected journey 'there and backagain'. They have a plot to raid the treasurehoard of Smaug the Magnificent, a large andvery dangerous dragon...

The prelude to The Lord of the Rings, TheHobbit has sold many millions of copies sinceits publication in 1937, establishing itself as oneof the most beloved and influential books of the20th century.

比尔博，一个热爱安逸生活的霍比特人，自得其乐地待在位于袋底洞的霍比特洞府里。清晨和煦，睿智巫师甘道夫的到来打破了宁静。"越过冰冷又雾蒙蒙的大山，在那深深地下洞穴已有千年......"吟着古老的歌谣，十三个矮人将比尔博拽进冒险远行的队伍。在这趟意外之旅中，与世无争的霍比特人比尔博却孤身一人在暗如永夜的山底洞穴中发现了足以改变整个世界的小小戒指。

本书完美融合了史诗气派与童心稚趣。书中故事发生在精灵强盛的时代之后、人类统治的时代之前。那时著名的黑森林依然耸立，群山间仍充满艰险。若此前你对这些浑然不知，那么请踏上这位平凡探险家的不凡旅程，和他一起认识食人妖、半兽人、矮人和精灵，了解那个遭到忽视的伟大时代。

初入世界的前路未知，正如去而复返后的无法忘怀...

作者简介

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien(1892-1973) was anEnglish writer, poet, philologist, and academic.From 1925 to 1945, he was the Professor of theUniversity of Oxford. He was a close friend of C.S.Lewis. He was appointed a Commander of theOrder of the British Empire by Queen Elizabethin 1972.The great success of The Hobbit andThe Lord of the Rings led directly to a popularresurgence of the genre. This has causedTolkien to be popularly identified as the "fathe""of modern fantasy