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A great modern classic and the prelude to the lord of the rings bilbo baggins is a hobbit who enjoys a comfortable unambitious life rarely traveling any farther than his pantry or cellar but his contentment is disturbed when the wizard gandalf and a company of dwarves arrive on his doorstep one day to whisk him away on an adventure. The book the hobbit is a fantasy adventure by jrr tolkien that takes place in the fictional world of middle earth which is the setting of most of the authors works the hobbit tells a fantastic story of adventure danger friendship and courage and serves as a prequel to the even more immersive and epic book series the lord of the rings. An admirable and thought provoking consideration of the underlying themes of the hobbit following the there and back again progress from its famous first line on through to bilbos return home at the storys end douglas a anderson author of the annotated hobbit the