Having read J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings trilogy, I was eager to pick up this prequel to the books. The Hobbit is the tales and adventures of a peculiar hobbit name Bilbo Baggins. This book is more aimed towards children than his later famous trilogy.
The story of Bilbo Baggins is an adventurous fantasy of hobbits, wizards, elves, dwarves, and so on. Bilbo, along with his wizard pal, Gandalf, sets our from his quiet life in the Shire to visit lots of magical creatures.
The version of the book I read included illustrations by Michael Hague. I was eager to see these visuals while reading, as his other books do not have these pictures. About every ten pages, there is a full-page illustration portraying the scene that is going on at the time of reading.
I would recommend this book to any reader of any age who is capable of reading a near 200 page story. Readers young and old will enjoy this book as Bilbo Baggins experiences adventures that only hinted at in the Lord of the Rings trilogy.
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