the hobbit

Greetings to All Here, I am a decades-long admirer of the incomparable creative genius of J.R.R. Tolkien, having read his Middle-Earth works avidly and repeatedly over many years and also have consumed not just the Peter Jackson productions but also the NPR/Mind’s Eye and BBC audio...

Someone online told me. That Christopher Tolkien sorta said Tolkien was inconsistent about some of his stories. And so he wrote The Hobbit as a response to that. Or am i wrong? But if true. Then thats kinda amazing ^^

First off, I wasn't sure where this exactly fit and by my powers of debatable deduction I decided here was probably the best location. If this is incorrect please feel free to move it where it belongs or remove it and let me know where I should be placing it! It's my first post and I don't want...

Well. (sniff.) I don't see this has a thread of its own, though there's a lot of trivia everywhere scattered about. But as the Lord of the Rings has its own trivia thread, maybe this can have one? Anyway, I found it interesting Peter Jackson based his Rhosgobel Rabbits on the Flemish Giants...

Looks like a simple tabletop dice game of Bilbo's journey is coming out in October.

In the LOTR, at the Council of Elrond Bilbo apologizes about how he was untruthful when he first recounted how he found the ring from Gollum. My understanding is that this is an in universe explanation for the disparate out of universe editions of The Hobbit. Is that a fair assessment. How could...

I am currently writing a compare and contrast essay on Frodo and Bilbo and I need some good professional sources ( not wiki) I was wondering if y’all have any suggestions? I have been looking and am having some troubles so if y’all have any tips that would be most appreciated =) thanks!

Hey! These last few months, my family and I have been playing a ton of board games like Ticket to ride and Trekking. I had an idea recently to blend my love for these games and all things Tolkien, and create a custom made LOTR edition. I wanted to do everything from scratch so used Photoshop to...

I searched the site but didn't find any discussion relating to this yet. But I just discovered something really cool! Apparently this guy, Paul Corfield Godfrey, started working on a Silmarillion opera in 1981 and only just finished it in 2022, with full permission from the Tolkien Estate! It is...

I read LotR before The Hobbit and expected them to be similar. I knew The Hobbit was a children’s book, but I expected to see something like a childrens version of King Arthur or Robin Hood that I read as a child. Instead, what I got was a reasonably contemporary novel written for children...

This is a radio play from 1980 in eight parts, you can even download it. It's going to be online til 24th of January 2024: J.R.R. Tolkien: Der Hobbit - Fantasy-Hörspiel-Klassiker Some more info on Ardapedia: Der Hobbit (Hörspiel)

Some may know her as the author of Moomins. It kinda makes me think of Zelda Wind Waker (before that game became a thing heh). But its kinda cool! https://lithub.com/take-a-look-at-tove-janssons-illustrations-for-a-swedish-edition-of-the-hobbit/

I'm currently writing an essay for school and I just need a couple more opinions on this topic...

Hello, all. I have a discussion in class coming up and I have discussion prep to complete and it is on the Hobbit, and one of the questions is: "At the end of the book, Bilbo is pleased that he is 'only a little fellow in a wide world after all!' Why is this a comforting perspective? How does...

Hi I am new here but I wanted to ask one question since there is a super extended lord of the rings trilogy that has not been released yet and each of the films would be five or six hours longer. My question I was asking is there a more scenes and hours that never made it to the extended...

I felt this is what Hobbit book was about. Adventure but also a childrens story. And overall relaxing atmosphere. I recorded it from my PS2. A very underrated game in my view published by Sierra in 2003.

So Tolkien always intended for his stories to have been written by characters in universe however as far as I know the Hobbit which in universe is named ''There and Back again by Bilbo Baggins'' is the only book who's in universe author we know, hench why there can be two versions of the...

Going through LOTR once more - I keep picking up on Pippin. What he says, what he does, his experiences and interactions with others. Is Pippin in LOTR the most like Bilbo in The Hobbit? He's this naive character, experiencing all kinds of new things, making all kinds of mistakes, asking all...

The wiki on my man Legolegs says, The first sentence there probably indicates that there's no canon answer, and probably no indication in the notes of Tolkien. But if Legolas was sent to Rivendell to tell of the escape of Gollum from Mirkwood, that would imply that at the start of the War of...

According to NerdoftheRings on Instagram, a new "History of The Hobbit" is coming in March 2023! No changes in the book, but this version's design is in line with the recent books we've gotten like Nature of Middle-earth & Fall of Númenor. Makes me wonder if we might get new versions for all of...