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The Hobbit

by Charles Dixon, Sean Deming, J.R.R. Tolkien · 1990

Middle Earth (Imaginary place)Comic books, stripsChildren's fictionFantasy fictionMiddle earth (imaginary place), fictionGandalf (fictitious character), fiction

Bilbo Baggins is a hobbit who enjoys a comfortable, unambitious life, rarely travelling further than the pantry of his hobbit-hole in Bag End. But his contentment is disturbed when the wizard, Gandalf, and a company of thirteen dwarves arrive on his doorstep one day to whisk him away on an unexpected journey ‘there and back again’. They have a plot to raid the treasure hoard of Smaug the Magnificent, a large and very dangerous dragon…

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Book data: Open Library